Footnotes
[1]
Plutarch, "Life of Solon."
[3]
Philolaus of Corinth made a law at Athens that the number of the
portions of land and that of inheritances should be always the same. --
Aristotle, Politics, ii. 7, 12.
[5]
Cornelius Nepos, preface. This custom began in the earliest
times. Thus Abraham says of Sarah, "She is my sister, my father's
daughter, but not my mother's." The same reasons occasioned the
establishing the same law among different nations.
[6]
De specialibus legibus quæ pertinent ad præceptar Decalogi.
[8]
Athenis dimidium licet, Alexandriæ totum. — Seneca, De Morte
Claudii.
[9]
Plato has a law of this kind. Laws, v.
[11]
Solon made four classes: the first, of those who had an income
of 500 minas either in corn or liquid fruits; the second, of those who
had 300, and were able to keep a horse; the third, of such as had only
200; the fourth, of all those who lived by their manual labour. --
Plutarch, Solon.
[12]
Solon excludes from public employments all those of the fourth
class.
