5. In Sparta, however, the principle of community of goods was carried to a further extent than in any other nation, although it was the principle on which the legislation of many other Grecian states was founded. Phaleas the Chalcedonian had made it the basis of his laws.(932) The prohibition of Solon, that no citizen should possess more than a certain quantity of land, appears to have been a remnant of a former equality in the lots of the nobles.(933) In cases, however, in which the restoration or introduction of equality was not possible, the legislators endeavoured to make the landed estates inalienable. For this reason the mortgaging of land was prohibited in Elis;(934) and among the Locrians land could not be alienated without proof of absolute necessity.(935) We have already spoken of the inalienability of the lots at Leucas.(936) The ancient Corinthian lawgiver, Phidon, made no alteration in the unequal size of landed estates, but he wished to restrict their extent, as well as the number of the landed proprietors, who were all citizens.(937) Philolaus the Corinthian, who gave laws to Thebes in the 13th Olympiad, went still further;(938) since he not only endeavoured to retain the same number of lots, by laws concerning the procreation and adoption of children,(939) but endeavoured to restore the original equality from time to time, perhaps in a manner similar to the jubilee-year of the Hebrews:(940) this was in fact most simply effected by the Illyrian Dalmatians, who made a new division of the tillage-land every seven years.(941) If the Doric legislation of Crete had originally a tendency of this kind, its adoption in practice had evidently been hindered by peculiar circumstances. For Polybius(942) at least knew of no Cretan laws which laid any restriction upon the purchase of land, nor indeed upon gain in general:(943) the landed estates were divided among the brothers, the sisters receiving half a brother’s share.(944) In this manner, in the narration of Ulysses,(945) the sons of Castor, the son of Hylacus, made a division of their patrimony; the illegitimate son receiving only a small share (νοθεῖα). But the poor frequently, by marriage with wealthy wives, attained to riches, together with personal distinction. In addition to this, privateering expeditions, sometimes as far as Egypt, for which individual adventurers frequently equipped whole flotillas, gave an opportunity for a more rapid acquisition of wealth. This habit of living in ships, and at the same time the variable condition of the different states, necessarily produced a frequent change of property, and soon put an end to all firmness and equality wherever they existed.