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They formed the sovereign power of the state, and they alone were eligible to honours and public offices. They lived in Sparta itself and were all subject to the discipline of Lycurgus. They were divided into three tribes, the HYLLEIS, the PAMPHILI, and the DYMANES, which were not, however, peculiar to Sparta, but existed in all the Dorian states.
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