120), severely punished; but in Diod.

I.80.we see that when thieves acknowledged themselves to the authorities to be such, they were not punished, though a strict watch was set over them.

According to Diodorus, there was a president of the thieves' caste, from whom the stolen goods could be reclaimed on relinquishment of a fourth part of the same.

This strange rule possibly owed its rise to the law, which compelled every Egyptian to appear once in each year before the authorities of his district and give an account of his means of subsistence.

Those who made false statements were punished with death.Diod.