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INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
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Like them he must be fifty years of age: and let him go unbidden to the doors of the wise and rich, that he may learn from them, and they from him.
These are the rules of missions into foreign countries, and of the reception of strangers.

Let Zeus, the God of hospitality, be honoured; and let not the stranger be excluded, as in Egypt, from meals and sacrifices, or, (as at Sparta,) driven away by savage proclamations.
Let guarantees be clearly given in writing and before witnesses.

The number of witnesses shall be three when the sum lent is under a thousand drachmas, or five when above.

The agent and principal at a fraudulent sale shall be equally liable.

He who would search another man's house for anything must swear that he expects to find it there; and he shall enter naked, or having on a single garment and no girdle.


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