M136 In India the chief of a town might receive the king's supplies.
310 1 Kings iv. 7-27. One of these officers was over "threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars."
M140 Grants of land to the prince easily made, in their elastic system of agriculture.
313 Pind. _Nem._ vi. 11 (Trans. Myers), _cf._ Ridgeway, _op. cit._ p. 20.
M141 Such grants were a special honour, and served to relieve other contributions.
M142 Modern specimens of the elasticity of Greek methods.
317 Mahaffy, _Rambles in Greece_, 3rd ed. p. 200.
318 Rennell Rodd's _Customs and Lore of Modern Greece_, p. 58.
M143 The gifts to the prince not actually food-rents for the land. M144 The chief's land apart from the tribesmen's.
M145 The land sustained the householder in his duties to other members and guests. M146 The chief had the right to demand gifts from the people; M147 he had tribal right to a { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, as the tribesman to a { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, M148 but could not deprive the tribesman of his land.
321 The { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} is spoken of as capable of good cultivation by means of a yoke of oxen.
M149 Hesiod an immigrant: not a typical case of a family.
_ 322 Works and Days_ 637. Possession of land would presuppose admission to full civic rights. _V. supra_, p. 97.
_ 324 W. and D._ 345 &c. { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH VARIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}.