Most people [use the term to mean] confined area or, generally, neighborhood, but others say that the demes within the city are called villages. Also [that] the demesmen within the city and, generally, those who live in the same district and part of the city [are called] κομήται ["villagers"]. Aristophanes [uses the term] this way.[1] Thucydides, also, speaks of demes as "villages" in [book] 1: "[Sparta] was inhabited by villages in the ancient manner."[2]