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 structam. Quae igitur modo de Lacedaemoniis ex 

 Herodoto attuli, eadem fere apud Platonem egregie 

 de Arheniensibus hac aetate memoriae prodita inve- 

 nihius. Ita enim in Libris de Legibus populariura 

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(1) Herod. Lil>, Vlir. <:. i43, 



(i) I'l(.to (/.' L,^^. Lib. !H. p, ^V^%. B. 

 (3) I. 1. p. 700. A. 



