| This system of clientship enabled social mobility as a client could increase his wealth until he could afford clients of his own, thus becoming a lord. |
| It also seems that at this time it becomes easier for aristocratic families to gain enormous power and wealth through the system of clientship. |
| For instance, it includes clientship information for even the highest nobility, who would not have acted as clients. |
| Reasonably or unreasonably, Hippias was obviously hoping to establish a kind of political bridgehead here by appealing to old bonds of clientship. |
| Clientship was also practised between nobles, which established hierarchies of homage and political support. |
| This pyramid progressed from the unfree population at its base up to the heads of noble fine held in immediate clientship by the king. |
