But Hesiod does not lay down this
as a necessity or as a universal
rule ; he only says that a man is
better off who has only one son
(0pp. Di. S74). And if Plato had
been able to cite Lykurgus as an
authority for that system of an in-
variable number of separate xX^poi
or lots, which he sets forth in his
treatise De Legibus (p. 740), it is
highly probable that he would
have done so. Still less can Aris-
totle have supposed that Lykurgus
or the Spartan system either en-
sured, or intended to ensure, the
maintenance of an unalterable
number of distinct proprietary
lots; for he expressly notices that
scheme as a peculiarity of Philo-
laus the Oorinthian, in his laws
for the Thebans (Polit. ii. 9, 7).
• PoIybiUB, Fragm. ap. Mail Col-
lect. Vett. Scrip, vol. ii. p. 384.
Perhaps, as O. Miiller remarks,
this may mean only, that none
except the eldest brother could
afford to marry; but th9 feelings



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