Zeugitae

The Zeugitae (Greek:ζευγῖται) or zeugitai were members of the third division of ancient Athens after the political reforms of Solon. The zeugitae were those whose property or estate could produce 200 medimnoi of wet or dry goods (or their equivalent), per year. The term appears to have come from the Greek word for "yoke", which has led modern scholars to conclude that zeugitae were either men who could afford a yoke of oxen or men who were "yoked together" in the phalanx—that is, men who could afford their own hoplite armor.