9. The investigation concerning the revenue of the kings is not in itself so important as it is rendered interesting by the parallel with the same office in the Homeric age. In Homer the kings are represented as having three sorts of revenues; first, the produce of their lands (τεμένη),(435) which often contained tillage ground, pastures, and plantations; secondly, the fees for judicial decisions (δῶρα); and, thirdly, the public banquets, which were provided at the expense of the community.(436) To these were added extraordinary gifts, shares of the booty, and other honorary presents. The case was nearly the same at Sparta, except that they received no fees for judicial decisions. But in the first place, the king in this country had his landed property, which was situated in the territory of several cities belonging to the Periœci,(437) and the royal tribute (βασιλικὸς φόρος) was probably derived from the same source.(438) This was the foundation of the private wealth of the kings, which frequently amounted to a considerable sum; otherwise, how could it have been proposed to fine king Agis a hundred thousand drachmas,(439) that is, doubtless, Æginetan drachmas, and therefore about 5800_l._ of our money? Also the younger Agis, the son of Eudamidas, was possessed of six hundred talents in coin;(440) and in a dialogue attributed to Plato, the king of Sparta is declared to be richer than any private individual at Athens.(441) But besides these revenues, the king received a large sum from the public property; a double portion at the public banquets,(442) an animal without blemish for sacrifice, a medimnus of wheat, and a Lacedæmonian quart of wine on the first and seventh days of each month;(443) the share in the sacrifices above mentioned, &c. It was, moreover, customary for private individuals who gave entertainments, to invite the kings, as was the practice in the Homeric times;(444) on these occasions a double portion was set before them, and when a public sacrifice took place, the kings had the same rights and preferences.(445) In war, also, the king received a large portion of the plunder; thus the share of Pausanias, after the battle of Platæa, was ten women, horses, camels, and talents:(446) in later times it appears that a third of the booty fell to the lot of the king.(447) Lastly, it is proper to mention the official residence of the two kings of Sparta, built, according to tradition, by Aristodemus the ancestor of the two royal families.(448) In addition to this dwelling, they had frequently private houses of their own,(449) and a tent was always built for them without the city, at the public expense.(450)