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It is accordingly a significant fact that the word reappears in Sicilian Greek as moiton ; and with this is to be connected the reappearance of the Latin -carcer- in the Sicilian karkaron . Since it is philologically certain that both words were originally Latin, their occurrence in the local dialect of Sicily becomes an important testimony to the frequency of the dealings of Latin traders in the island, which led to their borrowing money there and becoming liable to that imprisonment for debt, which was everywhere in the earlier systems of law the consequence of the non-repayment of a loan.
It is accordingly a significant fact that the word reappears in Sicilian Greek as moiton ; and with this is to be connected the reappearance of the Latin -carcer- in the Sicilian karkaron . Since it is philologically certain that both words were originally Latin, their occurrence in the local dialect of Sicily becomes an important testimony to the frequency of the dealings of Latin traders in the island, which led to their borrowing money there and becoming liable to that imprisonment for debt, which was everywhere in the earlier systems of law the consequence of the non-repayment of a loan.
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