even the kings are compelled to curry favour with them'.
Aristotle On ephors 'Men who are extremely poor get onto this board, and their poverty used to make them open to bribery.
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to dismiss office holders and actually imprison them and put them on trial for their lives'. Xenophon The ephors had the power to 'fine anyone they wish. Xenophon Comments that although athletic contests were honourable, 'they are merely trials of physique, whereas the competition for the Gerousia involves a test of the noble qualities of the spirit'. Aristotle Cited that the men of the gerousia have 'been guilty of taking bribes and have been corrupt enough to give away a lot of public property'. Plutarch On deciding between competitors for the Gerousia, 'the most shouting and the loudest was the man declared elected'. Herodotus The king sits with the 'twenty eight elders in the council chamber'. can be accepted with certainty, and that even the very existence of Lycurgus is open to doubt'. Michell 'It is safe to say that not a single statement. Plutarch 'Lycurgus persuaded the citizens to pool all their land and then redistribute it afresh'. Plutarch Complains about the lack of precise evidence for Lycurgus. Plutarch Writes that after the Messenian wars the new Spartan military state emerged and was due to the lawgiver Lycurgus. Aristotle Writes of Lycurgus as a historical figure who handed down the laws of Sparta after consulting the will of gods. messes as well as the ephors and elders'. Herodotus Lycurgus 'changed all the laws. Xenophon 'They have achieved success by obeying the laws laid down for them by Lycurgus'. Plutarch 'Generally speaking, it is impossible to make any undisuted statement about Lycurgus the lawgiver.'. Plutarch Wrote that Lycurgus travelled to Apollo's shrine at Delphi and received the god's advice in the form of an oracle written as a prose poem. Forrest In regards to Lycurgus, 'Others may have thought of him as the god or hero under whose protection the new order was placed'.
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