Suid. v. κώθωνες, t. i. p. 1510. b. Hesych. in v. Athen. xi. 66. Plut. Lycurg. § 9. Poll. vi. 96, seq. Xenoph. Cyrop. i. 2. 8. Footnote 1856: Poll. vii. 160. ----- In their festivals and marriage entertainments, as well as in war which they regarded much in the same light, the Spartans indulged in the luxury of fictile vessels, but at their common tables they drank out of wooden bowls,[1857] for the production of which, as well as of smaller goblets, Laconia was famous. It likewise, in later times at least, manufactured for exportation massive gold plate curiously chased, which, under the Macedonian kings, found its way to Egypt.[1858] Indeed these military utilitarians appear to have excelled in the making of all articles of ordinary convenience, as couches, easy-chairs, and tables, which accordingly were much sought after.[1859] Doors have likewise been enumerated among Laconian exports,[1860] but with little probability, especially when we recollect the directions given by the Spartan legislator for the construction of this part of domestic defence;[1861] nor is it a jot more likely that the carts and waggons which the Lacedæmonians constructed of smilax ever found their way beyond the borders of Laconia, unless employed in carrying provisions for its own armies.[1862] ----- Footnote 1857: Polem. ap. Athen. xi. 66. Footnote 1858: Athen. v. 28. 30. Footnote 1859: Plut. Lycurg. § 9. Footnote 1860: Müller, Dorians, ii. 25. Meurs. Lacon. ii. 17. Footnote 1861: Plut. Lycurg. § 13. Footnote 1862: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iii. 16.3. ----- The steel and iron, however, of the Lacedæmonian forges were, as elsewhere stated, in great request for the making of carpenters’ and stonecutters’ tools, augers, files, chisels,[1863] &c.; as were likewise the Laconian locks and keys, which were divided into three wards, and far more intricate than those in common use.[1864] The manufactures which flourished in the city of Sparta itself, and were chiefly, perhaps, designed to supply the home-market were those of iron rings, daggers,[1865] short scimitars, swords, spits, axes, hatchets, and scythes, together with felt,[1866] walking-sticks,[1867] lute and bow-strings, which, as well as several of the above, we know to have been exported.[1868] ----- Footnote 1863: Steph. de Urb. v. Λακεδαίμων, p. 505. c. seq. Eustath. ad Il. β. 222. 27. Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 3. 7. Plin. Nat. Hist. vii. 56. Cf. Æn. Tactic. ii. 16. Footnote 1864: Suid. v. Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδες, t. ii. p. 6. b. Footnote 1865: Poll. i. 149. 137. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 4. Xenoph. Anab. iv. 8. 25. Suid. v. ξυήλήν, t. ii. p. 258. e. f. Footnote 1866: Poll. i. 149. Footnote 1867: Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 174. The καλαυροψ, or shepherd’s crook, was most probably reckoned among the exports of Arcadia. Cf. Etym. Mag. 485. 36. Suid. t. i. p. 1356. c. Footnote 1868: