might eat up every
Spartan raw.'" (7) Then, as the inquiry went on, the question came: "And
where did they propose to find arms?" The answer followed: "He explained
that those of us, of course, who are enrolled in regiments have arms of
our own already, and as for the mass--he led the way to the war
foundry, and showed me scores and scores of knives, of swords, of spits,
hatchets, and axes, and reaping-hooks. 'Anything or everything,' he told
me, 'which men use to delve in earth, cut timber, or quarry stone, would
serve our purpose; nay, the instruments used for other arts would in
nine cases out of ten furnish weapons enough and to spare, especially
when dealing with unarmed antagonists.'" Once more being asked what time
the affair was to come off, he replied his orders were "not to leave the
city."

(4) "Pol. Lac." xv. 2.

(5) For the {omoioi}, see Muller, "Dorians," iii. 5, 7 (vol. ii. p.
84); Grote, "H. G." ix. 345, note 2.

(6) For the neodamodes, hypomeiones, perioeci, see Arnold, "Thuc." v.
34; Muller, "Dorians," ii. 43, 84, 18; Busolt, op. cit. p 16.

(7) See "Anab." IV. viii. 14; and Hom. "Il." iv. 34.

As the result of their inquiry the ephors were persuaded that the man's
statements were based upon things he had really seen, (8) and they were
so alarmed that they did not even venture to summon the Little Assembly,
(9) as it was named; but holding informal meetings among themselves--a
few senators here and a few there--they determined to send Cinadon and
others of the young men to Aulon, with instructions to apprehend certain
of the inhabitants and helots, whose names were written on the scytale
(or scroll). (10) He had further instructions to capture another
resident in Aulon; this was a woman, the fashionable beauty of the
place--supposed to be the arch-corruptress of all Lacedaemonians, young
and old, who visited Aulon. It was not the first mission of the sort
on which Cinadon had been employed by the ephors. It was natural,
therefore, that the ephors should entrust him with the scytale on which
the names of the suspects were inscribed; and in answer to his inquiry
which of the young men he was to take with him, they said: "Go and order
the eldest of the Hippagretae (11) (or commanders of horse) to let you
have six or seven who chance to be there." But they had taken care to
let the commander know whom he was to send, and that those sent should
also know that their business was to capture