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6.
The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being
unprotected, and their communication with each other unsafe;
indeed, to wear arms was as much a part of everyday life with them as with
the barbarians.
[2]
And the fact that the people in these parts of Hellas are still living in
the old way points to a time when the same mode of life was once equally
common to all.
[3]
The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons,
and to adopt an
easier and more luxurious mode of life;
indeed, it is only lately that their rich old men left off the luxury of
wearing undergarments of linen, and fastening a knot of their hair with a
tie of golden grasshoppers,
a fashion which spread to their Ionian kindred,
and long prevailed among the old men there.
[4]
On the contrary a modest style of dressing, more in conformity with modern
ideas, was first adopted by the Lacedaemonians,
the rich doing their best to
assimilate their way of life to that of the common people.
[5]
They also set the example of contending naked, publicly stripping and
anointing themselves with oil in their gymnastic exercises.
Formerly, even in the Olympic contests, the athletes who contended wore
belts across their middles;
and it is but a few years since that the practice ceased.
To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes
for boxing and wrestling are offered,
belts are worn by the combatants.
[6]
And there are many other points in which a likeness might be shown between
the life of the Hellenic world of old and the barbarian of to-day.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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