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The young men slept together, according to
division and company, upon pallets which they themselves brought together by breaking off by hand,
without any implement, the tops of the reeds which
grew on the banks of the Eurotas. In the winter
they put beneath their pallets, and intermingled
with them, the plant called lycophon, since the
material is reputed to possess some warming
qualities.1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xvi. (50 c).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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