tribe of the Ægidæ inhabited all that part extending in one direction from the Issorion to the Dromos, and in the other from the banks of the Tiasa to the Boonetos, may almost with certainty be inferred from the circumstance that the tomb of Ægeus, their founder, was situated in this quarter, close to the Lesche Pœcile. The quarter of the Mesoatæ lay in the north-west, between the Dromos and the temple of Dictynna; for here was found the tomb of Alcman who belonged to that tribe. All the rest of the site being thus occupied, there remains only for the tribe of the Cynosuræ that part lying between the road to Thornax and the temple of Dictynna, where accordingly we must suppose them to have lived. Footnote 308: Plut. Lycurg. § 11. Lacon. Apoph. Lycurg. 7. Footnote 309: Plut. Lycurg. § 5. Footnote 310: Polyæn. Stratag. ii. 1. 14. with the notes of Casaub. and Maasvic. Footnote 311: Olymp. vi. 28. Cf. Spanheim, ad Callim. in Dian. 172. Footnote 312: Cf. Athen. i. 57. With respect to the bridge Babyx, if bridge it really was, it appears very difficult[313] to believe that it spanned the Tiasa, though we still find massive ruins of arches in the channel of that stream. There seems to be much stronger reason for supposing it to have been thrown over the Eurotas, where the road from the Isthmus traversed it.[314] We should then understand by the oracle which commanded Lycurgus to assemble his people between Babyx and Cnacion,[315] that he was to gather them together anywhere within the precincts of the city. Accordingly we find in the time of Lycurgus, that the Agora in the centre of Sparta was the place were the Apellæ[316] were held. This, too, is evident, by the sense in which the matter was understood by Plutarch, who, speaking of the victory of the Bœotians over the Spartans at Tegyra, observes, that by this event it was made manifest that not the Eurotas, or the space between Babyx and Cnacion alone produced brave and warlike men.[317] Now it appears to me, that a few meadows without the city on which assemblies of the people were occasionally convened could never be said to produce these people. I have therefore supposed that Babyx was the bridge by which travellers coming from the Isthmus entered Sparta. Footnote 313: This, however, is the opinion of Mr. Müller, Dor. ii. 456. Footnote 314: See the passage in which Xenophon (v. 5. 27), describes the advance of the Thebans upon Sparta. Footnote 315: Plut. Lycurg. § 6. Footnote 316: Gœttl. ad Aristot. Pol. Excurs. i. p. 464. Footnote 317: Pelop. § 17. BOOK II. EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. THEORY OF EDUCATION.—BIRTH OF CHILDREN.—INFANTICIDE.