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[681a] and make ring-fences of rubble and walls to ward off wild beasts, till finally they have constructed a single large common dwelling.

Clinias
It is certainly probable that such was the course of events.

Athenian
Well, is not this also probable?

Clinias
What?

Athenian
That, while these larger settlements were growing out of the original small ones, each of the small settlements continued to retain, clan by clan, both the rule of the eldest

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