We shall therefore take our leave of the former, as they were mentioned only, that we might state the question with greater accuracy, and, be the better enabled to reduce it to its proper limits.
* * * * * FOOTNOTES [Footnote 004: Genesis, Ch.47.Leviticus XXV.v.

39, 40.] [Footnote 005: The _Thetes_ appear very early in the Grecian History .-- kai tines auto kouroi epont'Ithakes exairetoi; he eoi autou thentes te Dmoes( ?) te; Od.Homer.

D.642.They were afterwards so much in use that, "Murioi depou apedidonto eautous ose douleuein kata sungraphen," till Solon suppressed the custom in Athens.] [Footnote 006: The mention of these is frequent among the classics; they were called in general _mercenarii_, from the circumstances of their _hire_, as "quibus, non male praecipiunt, qui ita jubent uti, ut _mercenariis_, operam exigendam, justa proebenda.

Cicero de off." But they are sometimes mentioned in the law books by the name of _liberi_, from the circumstances of their _birth_, to distinguish them from the _alieni_, or foreigners, as Justinian.

D.7.8.