Note 523 — Chapter XI · FOLCLAND. BÓCLAND. LǼNLAND.

The τέμενος, or cut-off portion, entail, which service might earn among the Greeks, is of the same character. According to tradition, Pittacus was thus rewarded by the people of Mitylene, after overcoming Phrynon, the Athenian champion, in single combat: τῶν δὲ Μιτυληναίων δωρεὰς αὐτῷ μεγάλας διδόντων, ἀκοντίσας τὸ δόρυ, τοῦτο μόνον τὸ χωρίον ἠξιώσεν, ὅσον ἐπέσχεν ἡ αἰχμή· καὶ καλεῖται νῦν Πιττάκιον. Plut. de Malign. Herod. c. xv. The reward allotted to Horatius in the Roman Ager ought now to be familiar to every one:

“They gave him of the corn-land

That was of public right,

As much as two strong oxen

Could plough from morn till night!”