[Redbook8:165][19901231:1301]{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy [continued (3)]}[31st December 1990]
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‘For the battle of Plataea in 479, Sparta supplied 5,000 citizen hoplites and 35,000 helots; the helots were servicing troops, not fighting troops, but it would have been foolish to surround every armed man with seven thoroughly disaffected men, even if the latter were unarmed.’
– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20: 252
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