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Zeugitai
Zeugitai were members of the third census division created by Solon's constitutional reforms in ancient Athens. The term appears to have come from the Greek word for "yoke", which has led modern scholars to conclude that zeugitai were either men who could afford a yoke of oxen or men who were "yoked together" in the phalanx—--that is, men who could afford their own hoplite armor.
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