Only an understanding of the angareia- system can make fully intelligible one of the sayings of Jesus in the so-called Sermon on the Mount: ‘Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain' (Mt. V.4I). Again, the word ‘compel’ in this text represents the technical term angateuein. (The passage deserves more notice than it usually... See more

‘those who live in the cities’ as descending upon their chora after the harvest, in time of dearth, and appropriating for themselves practically all the wholesome food.