The articles whereof were theſe: That ſuch as were in debt, ſhould be cleered of all their debts, and that the landes alſo ſhould be diuided into equall partes: so that from the valley of Pallena vnto mount Taugetus, and vnto the cities of Malea, and Selasia, there ſhould be foure thowſand fiue hundred partes, […]
1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, page 851