Interchapter Query: Chapter 10 - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 10
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Text in Chapter 10 Referring to Chapter 11
In discussing the relationship between archaic Indo-European terms relating to religion and law, he noted (p. 305[1]), “The connection of Latin rego with Greek orégō ‘extend in a straight line’… the examination of the old uses of reg- in Latin (e.g., in regere fines, e regione, rectus, rex sacrorum) suggests that the rex, properly more of a priest than a king in the modern sense, was the man who had to trace out the sites of towns and to determine the rules of law.” (Chapter 11 will elaborate these rituals.)
- ↑ Émile Benveniste, Indo-European Language and Society (Coral Gables, Florida: 1973), p. 305.
