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There were one hundred and eighty men who directed the State. From these they used to elect councillors whom they called directors. But the majority of the populace spent their life in the coun try. They were called dusty-feet This was the serf-class liberated by the tyrants: cf. Cambridge Ancient History, vol. iii. p. 554. since, as one may conjecture, they were recognized by their dust-covered feet whenever they carne down to the city.
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Who was the woman that rode on a donkey at Cumae?
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Any woman taken in adultery they used to bring into the market-place and set her on a certam stone in plain sight of everyone. In like manner they then proceeded to mount her upon a donkey, and when she had been led about the circuit of the entire city, she was required again to take her stand upon the same stone, and for the rest of her life to continue in disgrace, bearing the name donkey-rider. After this ceremony they believed that the stone was unclean and they used ritually to purify it.
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The citizens of Cumae had also a certain office called the Guards. The man who held this office used to watch the prison most of the time, but he came to the nocturnal assemblies of the council and led out the kings by the hand and kept them out, until by secret ballot the council had decided on their case, whether they had done wrong or no.
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Who is She that Kindles the Fire (hypekkaustria)W. R. Halliday, in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, xxxvi. 165-177, suggests that cohen (= priest) may be contained in this word. among the people of Soli?
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This is the name which they give to the priestess of Athena because she performs certain sacrifices and ceremonies to avert evil.
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Who were the Forgetful Ones (Amnemones) at Cnidus, and who was the DismisserGrote thus connected aphester with the Spartan apostater of Life of Lycurgus, chap. vi. (43 c); but the matter is very doubtful; cf. van Herwerden, Lex. Supp. Graec. (Aphester)?
