“brought the practice of it into Sparta: where setting the merchants, artificers, and labourers every one a part by themselves, he did establish a noble Commonwealth.” He made an equal division of lands among all the citizens of Sparta, in order to “banish out of the city all insolvency, envy, covetousness, and deliciousness, and also all riches and poverty.” He forbade gold and silver money, allowing only iron coinage,
