<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg082a.perseus-eng2" type="translation" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="23"><p rend="indent">but it was their custom to use the neighbours’ servants as their own if they needed them and also their dogs and horses, unless the owners required them for their own use. And in the country, if anyone found himself lacking anything and had need of it, he would open an owner’s storehouse and take away enough to meet his need, and then replace the seals and leave it.<note resp="editor" place="unspecified" anchored="true"><foreign xml:lang="lat">Cf.</foreign> Xenophon, <title>Constitution of Sparta</title>, 6. 3-4; Aristotle, <title>Politics</title>, ii. 5.</note> </p></div></div></body></text></TEI>