The subject classes in Crete, Argos, Epidaurus, Corinth, Sicyon, Syracuse, Byzantium, Heraclea and Cyrene.

1. After having thus separately considered the two dependent classes in Sparta, the pattern state of the Dorians, we will now point out the traces of the analogous ranks in several other states of Doric origin. Now since the Doric customs were first established in Crete, fortunate circumstances having here given to that race a fertile country, and an undisturbed dominion, the relative rights of the Dorians and natives must at an early period have been fixed on a settled basis; which we may suppose to have been made on equitable terms, as Aristotle was not aware of any insurrection of the slaves in Crete against their masters. The Doric customs required here, as elsewhere, exemption from all agricultural or commercial industry; which is expressed in a lively manner in the song of Hybrias the Cretan, that “with lance and sword and shield he reaped “and dressed his vines, and hence was called lord of “the Mnoia.” In this island however different classes of dependents must have existed. Sosidrates and Dosiadas, both credible authors on the affairs of Crete, speak of three classes, the public bondsmen (κοινὴ δουλεία), called by the Cretans μνοΐα, the slaves of individual citizens, ἀφαμιῶται, and the Periœci, ὑπήκοοι.