Note 165 — OF THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
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A popular fallacy has long existed upon this point, and it certainly receives a sanction from the usages of antiquity. At Athens those who died in debt had no right to human burial, until satisfaction was made; their bodies belonged to their creditors, whence it is said that Cimon had no other method to redeem the body of his father Miltiades, but by taking his debts and fetters upon himself.—Potter’s Antiq.