Demetrius of Phalerum recommended to Ptolemy the king to buy and read the books dealing with the office of king and ruler. For, as he said, those things which the kings’ friends are not bold enough to recommend to them are written in the books.

Lycurgus, the Spartan, introduced the custom among his citizens of wearing their hair long, saying that it made the beautiful more comely and the ugly more frightful. Cf. , 228 F, infra, Plutarch’s , chap. xxii. (53 D) and , chap. i. (434 A). The Spartan custom of wearing the hair long is often referred to; for example , 189 F and 230 B, infra, Xenophon, , xi. 3.

To the man who urged him to create a democracy in the State his answer was, Do you first create a democracy in your own house. Repeated in , 155 D, 22 D, and Plutarch’s , chap. xix. (52 A).