Book of the Magistrates of the Athenians

were in magistracy public office were not forced to leave it against their will; thus, with this temperance, he easily joined the great with the low and likewise vice-versa, and all the more so because before it was not lawful for any plebeian commoner to administer any office or magistracy. He therefore made four parts of the People with this invention of the tribute that had to be paid. The first in dignity possessed five hundred measures or stara bushels of land; a modius measure or measure is called that land in which one staio unit of grain measure of wheat is sown. Varro Roman scholar defines the staio with these words: an iugerum Roman acre is that which has two square acts; the square act is that which is 120 feet wide and as long. This we call a measure and mina in Latin contexts, a weight in Latin. Cicero Roman orator is used to calling it medimna Greek unit of volume. This was the first census, and these were the first men in the fatherland after the Senatorial order. The noblemen were used to being elected in the Efetò ancient Athenian council oligarchy a place so called before Solon ordered the Areopagitic Senate. The burden of the Pentacosiomedimni those of the 500-measure class was when some necessity happened, or it was necessary to confer some thing for the use of the Republic. After these, immediately following in the same office were the second, of three hundred measures of census, called those such as Hippeis knights, because they could feed horses at home with their wealth, and at the time of war they were held to pay enough to sustain one man and one horse for a year. There were also two joined, who were used to lending to those who could not with their own means; one of those was estimated at 150 medimni half-minae. Aristotle Greek philosopher makes no mention of these in the Institutions of Solon, which he writes in