[101] Xen. _Econ._ iv. 3. Sitting was regarded as a slavish attitude, since the free citizen mostly stood or lay down. Xen. _Econ._ iv. 3. [102] Plato, _Protag._ 328 A. [103] Xen. _Revenues_, ii. 2. [104] Plato, _Kleitophon_, 409 B. [105] Plato, _Rep._ 421 E. [106] Plato, _Gorg._ 514 B. [107] Plato, _Rep._ 467 A. [108] Aristoph. _Acharn._ 1032. [109] The fifth-century comic poet. [110] Plutarch, _Solon_, 22. [111] Plato, _Laws_, 643 E. [112] Except possibly in Chios and Lokris, and of course in Sparta. [113] Thuc. ii. 45. 4. [114] Xen. _Econ._ vii. 5. [115] Xen. _Mem._ ii. 7. [116] Plato, _Rep._ 455 C. [117] Plato, _Laws_, 805 E. [118] As in Lusias, _ag. Diogeiton_, 32. 28. [119] In the _Econ._ vii. 10. [120] Thus the _Axiochos_ (366 D) puts seven years as the age at which grammatistai and paidotribai began. Plato (_Laws_, 794) says six; Aristotle (_Pol._ vii. 17) about five; Xenophon (_Constit. of Lak._ ii.) “as soon as the children begin to understand.” [121] Aesop was popular then, as now. This is the μουσική [mousikê] anterior to γυμναστική [gymnastikê], so keenly criticised in the _Republic_. [122] Plato, _Protag._ 325 C-E. [123] Xen. _Mem._ ii. 2. 6. [124] Plato, _Protag._ 326 C. [125] Aristotle, _Pol._ vii. 17. 7. [126] The three in this order in Plato, _Protag._ 312 B, 325-326; _Charmid_. 159 C; _Kleitoph_. 407 C; Xen. _Constit. of Lak._ ii. 1; Isok. _Antid._ 267. The first two in this order in _Charmid._ 160 A; _Lusis_, 209 B; inverted in _Euthud._ 276 A. Aristot. (_Pol._ viii. 3) gives γράμματα, γυμναστική, μουσική [grammata, gymnastikê, mousikê]. Plato in the _Laws_ 810 A makes κιθαριστική [kitharistikê] follow γραμματική [grammatikê]; Aristophanes mentions the paidotribes just after the κιθαριστής [kitharistês]. [127] Aristot. _Pol._ viii. 3. 1. [128] Xen. _Constit. of Lak._ ii. [129] See Illustr. Plates I. A and I. B. [130] Plato, _Laws_, 810 A. [131] Vase B 192. [132] Vases E 171, 172; see Plates III. and IV. [133] Aristot. _Pol._ viii. 4. 9. [134] _Ibid._ viii. 1. 2. [135] [Plato] _Rivals_, 132 A. [136] Plato, _Lusis_, 206 D. [137] Plato, _Laches_, 179 A. [138] Xen. _Constit. of Lak._ iii. [139] Plato, _Lusis_, 214 B. [140] Rhetoric is, of course, banished from a Platonic state. [141] [Plato] _Axiochos_, 366 E.