They may return to their property and become citizens of Thera. If anyone is unwilling to sail when sent by the city, let him be subject to the death penalty and let his property be confiscated. On these terms oaths were sworn by those remaining in Thera and those sailing to found the colony. They formed wax images and burned them while they uttered these curses, all of them together, men and women, boys and girls. The person who does not abide these oaths, but transgresses, shall melt and flow away as the images did.
Social pressure produces drastic solutions, whose cost is borne by all.
The breeding of livestock and the breeding of men. The new politics 1.