Institutions of Lycurgus, 82. The citizens ate at one table, 82.
Conversation at the table, 82. The food: black broth, 83; spare diet,
84. Learning, philosophy, mechanic trades, theatrical performances,
utterly banished, 85. Scanty apparel, 86; hard beds, 86; social
attachments, 86. A strict watch kept over the young, 87. Respect to
the aged, 88. Control by the aged of other people’s children, 88, 89.
Children allowed to steal, if the theft were carefully concealed,
89. The Spartan poetry and music, 90; martial music, 91. Tenacity
of ancient customs, 92. Funerals, 92, 93; inscriptions, 93. Foreign
travel prohibited, 98. A community of children, 93; and of goods and
estates, 94. Their warlike expeditions, 94. Their religious worship,
95. The Helots, when drunk, exhibited before the children, 96. None
but grave poetry allowed, 96. Meekness and forgiveness of injuries
not tolerated, 97. A laconic style of speaking practised, 98.
Whipping of boys annually before the altar of Diana, 98. Neglect of
maritime affairs, 99. Gold and silver banished, 99. Final overthrow
of the institutions of Lycurgus, 100.