If the numbers in Pollux were taken from a census in the time of Solon, the four tribes at that time contained three hundred and sixty families, each family consisting of thirty persons; this would give a total population of ten thousand eight hundred free citizens.

It was not long before that population nearly doubled itself, but the titles of the subdivisions remained the same.

I reserve for an appendix a more detailed and critical view of the vehement but tedious disputes of the learned on the complicated subject of the Athenian tribes and families.
[205] Boeckh (Pub.Econ.of Athens, book iv., chap.

v.) contends, from a law preserved by Demosthenes, that the number of measures for the zeugitae was only one hundred and fifty.

But his argument, derived from the analogy of the sum to be given to an heiress by her nearest relation, if he refused to marry her, is by no means convincing enough to induce us to reject the proportion of two hundred measures, "preserved (as Boeckh confesses) by all writers," especially as in the time of Demosthenes.