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Exo_5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Ver. 5. The people of the land now are many.] Et nihil agendo male agere discent. Iphicrates never suffered his soldiers to be out of employment; but, if out of military services, he set them to dig or lop trees or carry burdens, &c., to keep them from rebelling or worse doing. {a}
{a} ç ïñõôôåéí, ç ôáöñåõåéí, ç äåíäñá êïðôåéí , &c. - Polym. Stratag., lib. iii.