The instance of the Dutch colonists at the Cape, in the first part of the Essay; the description of an African battle, in the second; and the poetry of a negroe girl in the third, are the only considerable additions that have been made.
Genesis, Ch. 47. Leviticus XXV. v. 39, 40.
The Thetes appear very early in the Grecian History.--kai tines auto kouroi epont'Ithakes exairetoi; he eoi autou thentes te Dmoes(?) te; Od. Homer. D. 642. They were afterwards so much in use that, "Murioi depou apedidonto eautous ose douleuein kata sungraphen," till Solon suppressed the custom in Athens.
The mention of these is frequent among the classics; they were called in general mercenarii, from the circumstances of their hire, as "quibus, non malè præcipiunt, qui ita jubent uti, ut mercenariis, operam exigendam, justa proebenda. Cicero de off." But they are sometimes mentioned in the law books by the name of liberi, from the circumstances of their birth, to distinguish them from the alieni, or foreigners, as Justinian. D. 7. 8. 4.-Id. 21. 1. 25. &c. &c. &c.
"Nomos en pasin anthropois aidios esin, otan polemounton polis alo, ton elonton einai kai ta somata ton en te poleis, kai ta chremata." Xenoph. Kyrou Paid. L. 7. fin.
"Proud Nimrod first the bloody chace began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man."
-POPE.
Thucydides. L. 1. sub initio.
Idem.-"the strongest," says he, "engaging in these adventures, Kerdous tou spheterou auton eneka kai tois asthenesi trophes."
Homer. Odyss. L. 15. 385.
Xenoph. Kyrou Anab. L. 6. sub initio.