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Metic,an alien allowed to reside at Athens on payment of a tax
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Mina,denomination of money corresponding to 100 drachmas

Obol,coin representing the value of 1/6 of a drachma

Palaestra,training school for wrestling and athletics

Pankratiast,participant in a Pankration

Pankration,athletic contest, combining wrestling and boxing

Pnyx,public place of assembly in Athens, on a hill west of the Akropolis

Prytaneum,hall in which distinguished citizens and foreign ambassadors were entertained at public
expense

Scolion,song sung in turn by guests at a banquet

Stater,gold coin, weight about 1/2 ounce

Stele,upright slab or stone

Strategos,commander-in-chief or chief magistrate at Athens

Strigil,instrument for scraping dust and sweat from the body

Trireme,galley with three ranks of oars, used chiefly in war

Triarch,ruler of one of the three divisions of a country




THE LAST OF THE WINE

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whenI was a young boy, if I was sick or in trouble, or had been beaten at school, I used to remember
that on the day I was born my father had wanted to kill me.

You will say there is nothing out of the way in this. Yet I daresay it is less common than you might
suppose; for as a rule, when a father decides to expose an infant, it is done and there the matter ends.
And it is seldom a man can say, either of the Spartans or the plague, that he owes them life instead of