〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Lapidation, was a common punishment, and usually inflicted by the primitive Greeks upon such as were taken in Adultery, as we learn from Homer's third Iliad, where Hector tells Paris, he de∣serves to dye this death,
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For all your villanies you shall be ston'd to death.
Many other punishments there were, which they inflicted for par∣ticular Crimes, some of which I shall treat of in their proper places.
As the Laws inflicted severe Penalties upon Offenders, thereby to deterr Men from Vice and Wickedness, and from base and dis∣honourable Designs, so again they conferr'd ample Rewards upon such as merited them, thereby to incite others to the practice of Vir∣tue and Honesty, and the performance of good and glorious Actions; and upon the just and equal dispensation of these two Things, it was Solon's Opinion, that the Safety of any Common-wealth chiefly de∣pended . Now not to mention publick Honours and State-pre∣ferments, to which even those of the inferiour Sort might not despair of advancing themselves in a popular State, if by their eminent Ser∣vices they approv'd themselves to the People; beside these, I say, there were several publick Rewards, and Honours conferr'd upon such as had merited enough to be thought worthy of them; The chief of which were these;
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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or, the Honour of having their Pictures, or Statues erected in the Cittadel, Forum, or other publick places of the City . With such monuments of Virtue Athens seems to have abounded more than any City in the World, as will evidently appear to any, that will be at the pains to peruse Pausanias's accurate description of them.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or, Crowns, were conferr'd in the publick Assemblies by the Suffrages of the People, or by the Senators in their Council; but of these, because they were for the most part bestow'd upon those that had signaliz'd themselves by their Valour, as also of other Mili∣tary rewards, I shall give you an account of in another place.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, was an immunity from all publick Duties, Taxes, and Contributions, except such as were requir'd for carrying on the Wars, which no man was excus'd from. This Honour was very rare, but yet there want not instances of it, as particularly those of Harmodius, and Aristogiton's whole Families, which enjoy'd it for a great many ge∣nerations .
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