The two offices last named suggest a principle of some general bearing.

Whenever, as in these cases, the menial service in question has to do directly with the primary leisure employments of fighting and hunting, it easily acquires a reflected honorific character.

In this way great honor may come to attach to an employment which in its own nature belongs to the baser sort.

In the later development of peaceable industry, the usage of employing an idle corps of uniformed men-at-arms gradually lapses.

Vicarious consumption by dependents bearing the insignia of their patron or master narrows down to a corps of liveried menials.