460  CONSTITUTIONAL    AND    LEGAL    ANTIQUITIES

political  and  administrative  divisions,  they  speedily  assimilated
themselves  to  the  religious  associations  which  played  so  large
a  part  in  the  private  life  of  a  Greek  citizen.  The  revenues  of
the  deme,  inconsiderable  by  the  side  of  those  of  an  English  town
or  county  council,  were  devoted  mainly  to  the  cult  of  the
various  local  and  national  gods.  Nothing  apparently  was  spent
on  the  roads,  on  improvements,  sanitary  or  otherwise,  nothing
on  education,  and  there  were  no  poor  rates.
