They used to make the Helots drunk and exhibit them to the young as a deterrent from excessive drinking. Cf. Moralia , 455 e; Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus , chap. xxviii. (57 a); Life of Demetrius , chap. i. (889 a); Plato, Laws , 816 e; Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus , iii. chap. viii. ad init. (41. 5); Diogenes Laertius, i. 103.