In the following point also the Lacedaemonians resemble the Egyptians; that is to say, their heralds and flute-players and cooks inherit the crafts of their fathers, and a flute-player is the son of a flute-player, a cook of a cook, and a herald of a herald; other men do not lay hands upon the office because they have loud and clear voices, and so shut them out of it, but they practise their craft by inheritance from their fathers.

61. Thus are these things done: and at this time of which we speak, 885 while Cleomenes was in Egina doing deeds 886