Instituta Laconia

Plutarch

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

They always went without a shirt, receiving one garment for the entire year, and with unwashed bodies, refraining almost completely from bathing and rubbing down.[*](Life of Lycurgus, 50 c; Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta, 2. 4; Justinus, Historiae Philippicae, iii. 3. 5.)