I will also give an account of the power and
						honour that Lycurgus conferred on the King in the field. In the first place,
						while on military service the King and his staff are maintained by the
						state. The colonels mess with the King, in order that constant intercourse
						may give better opportunities for taking counsel together in case of need.
						Three of the peers also attend the King’s mess. These three take entire
						charge of the commissariat for the King and his staff, so that these may
						devote all their time to affairs of war. But I will go back to the beginning, and
						explain how the King sets out with an army. First he offers up sacrifice at
						home to Zeus the Leader and to the gods associated with him. Or, if we read οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ 
							with Haase, he and his staff. By the
							associated gods we should understand Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri.
							In the Oxford text I gave
							 τοῖν σιοῖν , the twin
							gods. If the sacrifice appears propitious, the Fire-bearer takes
						fire from the altar and leads the way to the borders of the land. There the
						King offers sacrifice again to Zeus and Athena.