Instituta Laconia

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

They used to make the Helots drunk and exhibit them to the young as a deterrent from excessive drinking.[*](Cf.Moralia, 455 e; Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, chap. xxviii. (57 a); Life of Demetrius, chap. i. (889 a); Plato, Laws, 816 e; Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, iii. chap. viii. ad init. (41. 5); Diogenes Laertius, i. 103.)