310 1 Kings iv. 7-27. One of these officers was over “threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars.” M139 Revenue from land in ancient Egypt. 311 Herod. ii. 109. 312 Genes. xlvii. 26. 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. 314 Ezekiel xlv. 8, 9. 315 Ez. xlvi. 18. _ 316 Od._ xxiv. 207. 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. _ 319 Od._ vi. 293. _ 320 Ib._ 259. 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 τέμενος, as the tribesman to a κλῆρος, M148 but could not deprive the tribesman of his land. 321 The κλῆρος 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. _ 323 Il._ ix. 648; xvi. 59. _ 324 W. and D._ 345 &c. γείτονες ἄζωστοι ἔκιον, ζώσαντο δὲ πηοί. M150 Land was in theory inalienable from the family. 325 Arist. _Pol._ VIII. ii. 5. ἦν δὲ τό γε ἀρχαῖον ἐν πολλαῖς πόλεσι νενομοθετημένον μηδὲ πωλεῖν ἐχεῖναι τοὺς πρώτους κλήρους; ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὅν λέγουσι Ὀξύλου νόμον εἶναι τοιοῦτόν τι δυνάμενος, τὸ μὴ δανείζειν εἴς τι μέρος τῆς ὑπαρχούσης ἑκάστῳ γῆς. Cf. _Id._ iv. 4 ὥσπερ ἐν Λοκροῖς νόμος ἐστὶ μὴ πωλεῖν.... ἔτι δὲ τοὺς παλαιοὺς κλήρους διασῴζειν. _ 326 Laws_ 741. _ 327 Laws_ 923. M151 In Sparta child must be accepted by its father’s tribesmen, _ 328 Lycurg._ xvi. 329 Suidas; and Harpocration _s.v._ ἀμφιδρόμια:—Λυσίας ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆς ἀμβλώσεωσ, εἰ γνήσιος ὁ λόγος. ἡμέρα τις ἤγετο ἐπὶ τοῖς νεογνοῖς παιδίοις, ἐν ᾗ τὸ βρέφος περὶ τὴν ἑστίαν ἔφερον τρέχοντες, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων καὶ φίλων πουλύποδας καὶ σηπίας ἐλάμβανον. Octopus is still a staple article of food on the shores of the Mediterranean. M152 who decided as to its maintenance. _ 330 Nouvelles Recherches_, 1891, p. 63. M153 Maintenance derived from the κλῆρος. M154 The family bound to their land at Athens; 331 Arist. _Pol. Ath._ 2 and 5. M155 and in Lokris. 332 Dareste, &c, _Recueil des Inscr. Jurid. Gr._ xi. M156 But heirs at Athens also must first be accepted by group of kinsmen. 333 Isaeus, iii. 60 and 42; vi. 48. 334 Isaeus, iii. 73 and 80.