Note 386 — Chapter XXXIX · LEGES AND EPINOMIS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
See Nägelsbach, Nach-Homerische Theologie, Part 5, 1, p. 194 seq., where this doctrine is set forth and largely illustrated.
In approaching a king a satrap or any other person of exalted position above the level of ordinary men, it was the custom to come with a present. Thucyd. ii. 97; Xenoph. Anab. vii. 3, 26; Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 1, 10-12.
The great person, to whom the presents were made, usually requited them magnificently.