4. Lochi also occur among the Argives and Thebans, and in the Asiatic armies; under the command of Sparta there were lochi of mercenaries and bowmen,(1126) &c.; whereas the mora was a division peculiar to the Spartans. The formation of this body was as follows. The whole number of citizens (τὸ πολιτικὸν) was divided into six moras(1127); so that every person of military age (ἔμφρουρος), even while he lived at Sparta, belonged to one of them. The strength of the mora in the field depended on the maximum fixed by the ephors for the age of those employed; thus, for example, they were able to send out a mora composed of persons less than thirty-five years from manhood (ἀφ᾽ ἥβης) and keep back those of greater age,(1128) &c. So that in this sense the numbers of the division depended upon circumstances. To each mora of heavy-armed infantry there belonged, without being in close connexion with it, a body of cavalry bearing the same name,(1129) consisting at the most of 100 men, and commanded by the hipparmost.(1130) In the mora of the infantry, however, the men of different ages must have been in some manner separated, so that, for example, those between thirty and thirty-five years of age could be easily detached for pursuit.(1131) In this division no respect was had to kindred; soldiers of one mora had brothers, sons, fathers, in another,(1132) although in early times it appears to have been an object of the greatest care to bring relations and friends together. According to Herodotus(1133) Lycurgus instituted the enomoties, triacades, and syssitia for war; evidently as military divisions; and the Lacedæmonians ate and fought in the same company; from which we may explain why the polemarchs had also a superintendence over the public tables.(1134) By these the larger divisions, and not the single banqueting companies, are intended; when Sparta, in the reign of king Agis, again contained 4500 families, there were fifteen of these divisions(1135); and in earlier times, when the number of families was 9000, there were probably thirty; it is therefore doubtless another name for oba, which rarely occurs; and the army was arranged according to tribes, phratrias, and houses. In early times also the single hamlets of Sparta furnished lochi of their own; as were the Pitanatæ(1136) in the Persian war, and the Mesoatæ.(1137)