Instituta Laconia

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Whosoever of the citizens would not submit to the discipline to which the boys were subjected had no participation in civic rights.[*](Cf. Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 3. 3.)