It was not allowed them to go abroad, so that they should have nothing to do with foreign ways and undisciplined modes of living.There are many references to the studied isolation of the early Spartans. The most important are Plutarch’s , chap. xxvii. (56 c), and the , chap. x. (799 d); Xenophon, , 14. 4; Aristophanes, , 1012; Aristotle, 543 (ed. Rose). Cf. also the note on , 237 a, supra, and the references given in the Teubner ed. of Plutarch’s (1926), iii. 2, p. 45 (, chap. xxvii.).