5. Cf. II ix, 2nd paragraph from end.

6. Literally ‘liturgies’ (leitourgiai), ‘public services’, payments to defray the cost of certain public functions (e.g. festivals). ‘Communal’ seems to indicate that in Crete such services were paid for not by wealthy individuals (as at Athens), but by the state.

7. Evidently enough was left over from the common meals for each man to take home something for his wife and children.

8. No such discussion is to be found in Aristotle.