Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . r classes (or phylae), accord-ing to wealth, — the pentakosiomedimnoi, the hippeis, orknights, the zeugitoi, and the thetes. The first were the rich-est, the last the poorest. Every citizen was bound to Athens was a democracy, the citizens were often in asmall minority. There were at one time but ninety thousandof them to forty-five thousand foreigners andthree hundred and sixty thousand slaves. An
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . r classes (or phylae), accord-ing to wealth, — the pentakosiomedimnoi, the hippeis, orknights, the zeugitoi, and the thetes. The first were the rich-est, the last the poorest. Every citizen was bound to Athens was a democracy, the citizens were often in asmall minority. There were at one time but ninety thousandof them to forty-five thousand foreigners andthree hundred and sixty thousand slaves. An-other census, taken under Demetrius, showedtwenty-one thousand citizens, ten thousandmetics, and four hundred thousand members of the first two classes abovenamed were obliged on requisition to keepeach a horse and serve as cavalry, but werethen free from infantry duty in all but excep-tional cases. The third class furnished theheavy infantry, in which each man must sup-ply himseK with arms. Of the fourth class,those who could furnish the proper armsmight serve in the heavy foot; the otherswere the light troops. Every Athenian freeman was held to pursue a certain. Heroic Horseman(from a vase). 40 THE HOPLITES ARMOR.
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