gentle birth

If a man of gentle birth has struck the strength of a man of gentle birth who is like himself, he shall pay one mina of silver.

If he has died of his blows, he shall swear, and if he be of gentle birth he shall pay half a mina of silver.

Her family or connections she had never spoken of to him, yet he had not the slightest doubt but that she was of gentle birth.

The man of gentle birth attacks them, nevertheless, but he breaks his arm and wounds his head.

This last, being purely ornamental, was doubtless a token of gentle birth or of an assured social station.