cleruci

Updated: July 3, 2025

In order to secure their dominion in Euboea, and at the same time to provide for their poorer citizens, the Athenians distributed the estates of the wealthy Chalcidian landowners among 4000 of their citizens, who settled in the country under the name of CLERUCI.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest