 "One who has bought land should sell his town house, so that he will have no desire to worship the household gods of the city rather than those of the country; the man who takes greater delight in his city residence will have no need of a country estate.The issues involved in rural land management also reveal underlying features of Punic society, its structure and stratification.The hired workers might be considered 'rural proletariat', drawn from the local Berbers.