In the third century B.C., such societies are found in CEOS and Peiraeus.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And yet all this great enmity between them arose, it appears, from a very boyish occasion, both being attached to the beautiful Stesilaus of CEOS, as Ariston the philosopher tells us; ever after which, they took opposite sides, and were rivals in politics.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
He was well liked by the common people, would salute every particular citizen by his own name, and always show himself a just judge in questions of business between private men; he said to Simonides, the poet of CEOS, who desired something of him, when he was commander of the army, that was not reasonable, "Simonides, you would be no good poet if you wrote false measure, nor should I be a good magistrate if for favor I made false law."
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh