The world: historical and actual . sus, but over the whole of Greece. It was notthe aim of Lycurgus to make the people happyor virtuous, but the state strong. The date of hiswork is uncertain. Some place it as early as B. , others as late as B. C. 880. The latter is sup-ported by the better authorities. The age of Homerand Hesiod is from B. C. 900 to B. 0. 800. Obvious-ly, then, the name Lycurgus stands rather for abody of laws borrowed largely from the Delta, thanfor an individual. Not that it was entirely an exoticby any means, but that the indigenous root was fer-tilized by the loam o
The world: historical and actual . sus, but over the whole of Greece. It was notthe aim of Lycurgus to make the people happyor virtuous, but the state strong. The date of hiswork is uncertain. Some place it as early as B. , others as late as B. C. 880. The latter is sup-ported by the better authorities. The age of Homerand Hesiod is from B. C. 900 to B. 0. 800. Obvious-ly, then, the name Lycurgus stands rather for abody of laws borrowed largely from the Delta, thanfor an individual. Not that it was entirely an exoticby any means, but that the indigenous root was fer-tilized by the loam of tne Nile. It was claimed forthe laws of Lycurgus, as for those of Moses, thatthey were the direct gift of Deity, and both werewritten upon tables of stone. Like Moses, too, he issupposed to have gone off by himself to die, hopingthereby to strengthen the authority of his enact-ments. The territory tributary to Sparta, formingwith it the State of Laconia, was, according to Plu-tarch, divided into 39,000 sections, of which 9,000we
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