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3And in the second place, when their city was first founded, they made a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives,[11] which they called the sanctuary of the God of Asylum. There they received all who came, delivering none up, neither slave to masters, nor debtor to creditors, nor murderer to magistrates, but declaring it to be in obedience to an oracle from Delphi that they made the asylum secure for all men. Therefore the city was soon full of people, for they say that the first houses numbered no more than a thousand. This, however, was later.
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Notes
[11] Cf. Livy, i. 8, 5 f.