The City State of the Greeks And Romans a Survey Introductory to the Study of
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Even in military matters the third depart- ment of government the same tendency is seen ; for the aristocracy took the greater risk in actual warfare, and were at greater expense than the commons in providing themselves with horses and superior arms. 2 They, like the chivalry of the middle ages, were the flower of the State's army; they had a greater stake in the State and they bore the greater burden. What wonder, then, if they, like their mediaeval counterparts, came to look down on the peopl...e as louts who could not or . Would not fight, unworthy alike of honour on the battlefield, and of power in the constitution ? 3 Thus we may be sure that in course of time there came to be a greater distinctness of outline in 1 In Homer the TroX^s is literally the dweller in the ?r6Xis as opposed to the dweller in the tLypos : IL ii. 806 ; Od. Vii. 131, xvii. 206. The latter two passages may indicate a time when the word was beginning to be used in its later sense ; for it is the nobility that dwells in the 7r6Xcs, as in the Mycenaean age it was, perhaps, only the /SacriXei/raros.
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