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INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
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The grapes or figs not used for storing a man may gather when he pleases on his own ground, but on that of others he must pay the penalty of removing what he has not laid down.
If he be a slave who has gathered, he shall receive a stroke for every grape or fig.

A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.

This right of hospitality, however, does not extend to storing grapes.

A slave who eats of the storing grapes or figs shall be beaten, and the freeman be dismissed with a warning.

Pears, apples, pomegranates, may be taken secretly, but he who is detected in the act of taking them shall be lightly beaten off, if he be not more than thirty years of age.


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