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first-fruit(s) | 'first-fruit' (re: the annual rent collected from villagers leasing land from the monastery, whose management is holding individual monks - perhaps themselves leasing the land from the monastery and then subleasing it to the villagers - liable for collecting and delivering the rent by means of contracts and 'asphaleia'-guarantees, framed from the perspective of the monastery and the individual monk respectively) | 'first-fruit' (inverted attributive; nominal referent) | beginning