{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg010.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg010.local001","title":"Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία","titleGreek":"Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Xenophon","authorityName":"XENOPHON Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","editors":["Edgar Carew Marchant"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1920","volume":"5","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaomniarecogn05xenouoft/page/68/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon. Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Opera Omnia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg010.local001","excerpt":"ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ ἐννοήσας ποτὲ ὡς ἡ Σπάρτη τῶν ὀλιγανθρωποτάτων πόλεων οὖσα δυνατωτάτη τε καὶ ὀνομαστοτάτη ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἐφάνη, ἐθαύμασα ὅτῳ ποτὲ τρόπῳ τοῦτʼ ἐγένετο· ἐπεὶ μέντοι κατενόησα τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα τῶν Σπαρτιατῶν, οὐκέτι ἐθαύμαζον. Λυκοῦργον μέντοι τὸν θέντα αὐτοῖς τοὺς νόμους, οἷς πειθόμενοι ηὐδαιμόνησαν, τοῦτον καὶ θαυμάζω καὶ εἰς τὰ ἔσχατα μάλα σοφὸν ἡγοῦμαι. ἐκεῖνος γὰρ οὐ μιμησάμενος τὰς ἄλλας πόλεις, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐναντία γνοὺς ταῖς πλείσταις, προέχουσαν εὐδαιμονίᾳ τὴν πατρίδα ἐπέδειξεν. αὐτίκα γὰρ περὶ τεκνοποιίας, ἵνα ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἄρξωμαι, οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι τὰς μελλούσας τίκτειν καὶ καλῶς δοκούσας κόρας παιδεύεσθαι καὶ σίτῳ ᾗ ἁνυστὸν μετριωτάτῳ τρέφουσι καὶ ὄψῳ ᾗ δυνατὸν μικροτάτῳ· οἴνου γε μὴν ἢ πάμπαν ἀπεχομένας ἢ ὑδαρεῖ χρωμένας διάγουσιν. ὥσπερ δὲ οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν τὰς τέχνας ἐχόντων ἑδραῖοί εἰσιν, οὕτω καὶ τὰς κόρας οἱ ἄλλοι Ἕλληνες ἠρεμιζούσας ἐριουργεῖν ἀξιοῦσι. τὰς μὲν οὖν οὕτω τρεφομένας…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/#tlg0032-tlg010-local001-15"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0032.tlg010.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032/tlg010/local001.json.gz"}}