We include under the latter military exercises, the various uses of arms, all that relates to horsemanship, and military evolutions and tactics.

There should be public teachers of both arts, paid by the state, and women as well as men should be trained in them.

The maidens should learn the armed dance, and the grown-up women be practised in drill and the use of arms, if only in case of extremity, when the men are gone out to battle, and they are left to guard their families.

Birds and beasts defend their young, but women instead of fighting run to the altars, thus degrading man below the level of the animals.

'Such a lack of education, Stranger, is both unseemly and dangerous.' Wrestling is to be pursued as a military exercise, but the meaning of this, and the nature of the art, can only be explained when action is combined with words.