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Plutarch, "Life of Solon."

Ibid.

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.

Laws, xi.

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.

De specialibus legibus quæ pertinent ad præceptar Decalogi.

Book x.

Athenis dimidium licet, Alexandriæ totum. — Seneca, De Morte Claudii.

Plato has a law of this kind. Laws, v.

Aristotle. ii. 7.

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.

Solon excludes from public employments all those of the fourth class.