Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 145 | It is not View more quotes about unusual">unusual for a Gorean city to have several villages in its vicinity, these customarily supplying it with meat and produce. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 142 | The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria. |
| 5 | 143 | The Companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun. |
| 5 | 144 | The journey itself, overland and afoot from Fortress of Saphronicus to Ti, would take several days, but it was ceremonially prolonged in order that the four tributary villages of Fortress of Saphronicus might be visited. |
| 5 | 145 | It is not unusual for a Gorean city to have several villages in its vicinity, these customarily supplying it with meat and produce. |
| 5 | 146 | These villages may or may not be tributary to the city. |
| 5 | 147 | It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market. |
| 5 | 148 | If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which, of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving the protection of the city's soldiers. |
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The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
The Companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun.
The journey itself, overland and afoot from Fortress of Saphronicus to Ti, would take several days, but it was ceremonially prolonged in order that the four tributary villages of Fortress of Saphronicus might be visited.
It is not unusual for a Gorean city to have several villages in its vicinity, these customarily supplying it with meat and produce.
These villages may or may not be tributary to the city.
It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market.
If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which, of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving the protection of the city's soldiers.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)