y of their
kings has been killed in war, they prepare an image to represent him,
laid upon a couch with fair coverings, and carry it out to be buried.
Then after they have buried him, no assembly is held among them for ten
days, nor is there any meeting for choice of magistrates, but they have
mourning during these days. In another respect too these resemble the
Persians; that is to say, when the king is dead and another is appointed
king, this king who is newly coming in sets free any man of the Spartans
who was a debtor to the king or to the State; while among the Persians
the king who comes to the throne remits to all the cities the arrears of
tribute which are due.

60. In the following point also the Lacedemonians resemble the
Egyptians; that is to say, their heralds and fluteplayers and cooks
inherit the crafts of their fathers, and a fluteplayer is the son of a
fluteplayer, a cook of a cook, and a herald of a herald; other men do
not lay hands upon the office because they have loud and clear voices,
and so shut them out of it, but they practise their craft by inheritance
from their fathers.

61. Thus are these things done: and at this time of which we speak, 44
while Cleomenes was in Egina doing deeds 45 which were for the common
service of Hellas, Demaratos brought charges against him, not so much
because he cared for the Eginetans as because he felt envy and jealousy
of him. Then Cleomenes, after he returned from Egina, planned to depose
Demaratos from being king, making an attempt upon him on account of this
matter which follows:--Ariston being king in Sparta and having married
two wives, yet had no children born to him; and since he did not
acknowledge that he himself was the cause of this, he married a third
wife; and he married her thus:--he had a friend, a man of the Spartans,
to whom of all the citizens Ariston was most inclined; and it chanced
that this man had a wife who was of all the women in Sparta the fairest
by far, and one too who had become the fairest from having been the
foulest. For as she was mean in her aspect, her nurse, considering that
she was the daughter of wealthy persons and was of uncomely aspect, and
seeing moreover that her parents were troubled by it,--perceiving I say
these things, her nurse devised as follows:--every day she bore her to
the temple of Helen, which is in the place called Therapne, lying above
the temple of Phoebus; and whenever the nurse bore her thither, she
pl