The poor husbands!--no doubt the lady was a match for them all! So much for those gentle creatures whom that grave German professor, M.Mueller, holds up to our admiration and despair.
[145] In Homer the condition of the slave seems, everywhere, tempered by the kindness and indulgence of the master.
[146] Three of the equals always attended the king's person in war.
[147] The institution of the ephors has been, with probability, referred to this epoch--chosen at first as the viceroys in the absence of the kings.
[148] Pausanias, Messenics.
[149] See Mueller's Dorians, vol.i., p.

172, and Clinton's Fast.
Hell.

vol.i., p.

183.
[150] For the dates here given of the second Messenian war see Fast.
Hell., vol.i., 190, and Appendix 2.
[151] Now called Messina.
[152] In Phocis were no less than twenty-two states (poleis); in Boeotia, fourteen; in Achaia, ten.

The ancient political theorists held no community too small for independence, provided the numbers sufficed for its defence.