The Historical Antiquities of the Greeks, Volume 1

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D. A. Talboys, 1837
 

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Page 213 - II est de la nature d'une république qu'elle n'ait qu'un petit territoire; sans cela elle ne peut guère subsister.
Page 364 - ... at the same time he abrogated the former rigorous law of debt by which the freeman might be reduced to servitude, and thus secured to him the unmolested possession of his legal rights. Moreover, it may be confidently asserted, that the Seisachtheia was accompanied by the conversion of those estates, which had hitherto been held of the nobility, by the payment of a fixed rent, into independent freehold property ; thus domiciliation, and the possession of freehold property, were the mainsprings...
Page 447 - ... no longer derived from one progenitor, did not propagate itself amongst relations bound by the ties of blood, or belong by community of extraction to one hereditary family-sanctuary. The word does not denote a line descending from a given point, but marks the transitions of the collateral Patrae into one another, which took place when the members of one Patra gave their daughters in marriage to the members of another, (Cicero ubi sup., Sequuntur connubia et affinitates). As marriage could no...
Page v - THE two volumes of which a translation is now offered to the English reader form the first part of Professor Wachsmuth's treatise on Grecian Antiquities, a work which occupies a distinguished place in the estimation of the learned in Germany, and has been mentioned in terms of high commendation by eminent scholars in this country. In the execution of his task the translator has adhered to the form of the original, as closely as appeared consistent with perspicuity, but whilst he has cautiously abstained...
Page 363 - ... and decayed substance was carefully extracted and replaced by sound materials. Whatever was excellent in prescription was incorporated with the new laws, and thereby stamped afresh ; but prescription as such, with the exception of some unwritten religious ordinances of the Eumolpids, was deprived of force. The law was destined to be the sole centre whence every member of the political community was to derive a fixed rule of conduct, secured against the vicissitudes of arbitrary power by the clear...
Page 358 - ... supply may lately have been somewhat accelerated 'by the poverty of many of the farmers. This may have been the case for a few months after the harvest. But the average quantity for a whole year cannot be influenced by this temporary cause. It can only be explained by a general excess of production, of the extent of which some idea may be formed from the fact, that the whole supply in Mark-lane, for the last year, has exceeded by nearly one-third the supply of the year preceding, and that in...
Page 378 - If his motion was deemed worthy of attention, the third assembly might refer the matter to the Nomothetae. They were selected by lot from the Heliastic body ; it being the intention of Solon to limit the power of the popular assembly by means of a superior board emanating from itself, composed of citizens of mature age, bound by a stricter oath, and accustomed to weigh legal principles by the exercise of their judicial functions. The number of the committee so appointed varied according to the exigency...
Page 368 - Every citizen had a right to speak in the popular assembly, and to judge, upon oath, in the courts ; but the former of these rights might be exercised at an earlier age than the latter. Upon attaining the age of puberty, the sons of citizens entered public life under the name of Ephebi. The State gave them two years for the full development of their youthful strength, and the practice of those exercises which might ensure its efficient dedication to the most important duty of a citizen, viz. the...
Page 371 - ... imparted a sort of official character, like that of legally-elected military commanders, and civil functionaries, to the self-constituted demagogues of the day. " Moreover, after oratory began to be studied systematically, the word Rhetor became confined to the class of professed sophists, Autoschediasts becoming comparatively rare, and a marked line being drawn between them and the remaining mass.

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