来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第10集 第10集》
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You think of Hesiod想想赫西奥德吧 -
his complaints where his noble man他所投诉的是他的贵族 -
his barons were crooked,他的男爵们都是恶人 -
but that doesn't mean they all were.但是并不是所有人都是那样 -
In any case, that's where you went.无论如何 那里就是解决纠纷的地方 -
They settled any disputes that you didn't settle by feud如果通过封地或以前的手段没有和解 -
or by some other primitive technique.那里就是解决争端的地方 -
and It was pretty clear并且在那时候 -
that it was right to have the noblemen do it,通过贵族来解决争端是理所当然的 -
not just because they're aristocrats并不是因为他们出身豪门 -
but because they would know what the law was而是他们了解世间的律法 -
since there was no writing因为直到公元前八世纪