was remarkable lor his shape or beuuty, he was put to death ; 

 and farther, from time to time, the youth of Sparta were or- 

 dered to he in ambush for them, and slaughter tliem at 

 night, to prevent their growing too numerous.* 



Every year a feast was celebrated in honour of Diana, 

 riien all the children of Sparta were whipped until the blood 

 ran down the altars of the Goddess. 



With regard to their domestic concerns, tliey were regulated 

 by the severest resLiictions ; no one had a right to adjust his 

 mode of living by his own will ; a fat man was punished for 

 being so. 



Many other instances might be adduced in proof of the 

 tniserable condition even of the gos'erning class, they are 

 enumerated by Goguet and L'Evesque, but I think those I 

 mentioned abundantl}' sufficient to prove that under the 

 Spartan government, men were reduced to the most miser- 

 able condition the world ever beheld either before or since. 



Of the Athenian Government. 



The subjects of this state consisted of four distinct classes 

 l"- Free citizens. — 2''JI- Sojourners. — 3'"^- Free servants. — 4''''^ 

 Slaves. The first class consisted of about 30, or 36,000 ; 

 the other classes of nearly 400,000, of which slaves formed 

 by far the greater number. 



The 



• 3 Goguet, 214, &o. 



