Note 232 — RADICALS.
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These were all places of general rendezvous for people of the same community. Here were kept up perpetual fires: and places of this sort were made use of for courts of judicature, where the laws of the country, θεμισται, were explained, and enforced. Hence Homer speaking of a person not worthy of the rights of society, calls him [232]Αφρητωρ, αθεμιστος, ανεστιος.