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Who were the ‘dusty-feet’ and the ‘directors’
in Epidaurus?
There were one hundred and eighty men who
directed the State. From these they used to elect
councillors whom they called ‘directors.’ But the
majority of the populace spent their life in the coun
try. They were called ‘dusty-feet’
1 since, as one
may conjecture, they were recognized by their dust-covered feet whenever they carne down to the city.
1 This was the serf-class liberated by the tyrants: cf. Cambridge Ancient History, vol. iii. p. 554.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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