For the Spartans, Lycurgus drew from the skye his ordering of their whole polity and made it their law never to leave their country, even to go to the wars, before the moon should be at her full, for he conceited that the potency of the moon is not the same when she waxeth and when she waneth, and that all things are subject unto her sway.

The Arcadians, however, and none but they, would have naught of this and yeelded no honour unto astrologie ; and in their folly they affirm that they are older than the moon.