'Our recruits will be drawn from all Crete, and of other Hellenes we should prefer Peloponnesians.

As you observe, there are Argives among the Cretans; moreover the Gortynians, who are the best of all Cretans, have come from Gortys in Peloponnesus.' Colonization is in some ways easier when the colony goes out in a swarm from one country, owing to the pressure of population, or revolution, or war.

In this case there is the advantage that the new colonists have a community of race, language, and laws.

But then again, they are less obedient to the legislator; and often they are anxious to keep the very laws and customs which caused their ruin at home.

A mixed multitude, on the other hand, is more tractable, although there is a difficulty in making them pull together.