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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: certainly must, but lessen the number of the judges." But if so, it
follows of necessity that unless the number of courts themselves are
diminished in number there will only be a few judges sitting in each
court,[14] with the further consequence that in dealing with so small
a body of judges it will be easier for a litigant to present an
invulnerable front[15] to the court, and to bribe[16] the whole body,
to the great detriment of justice.[17]
[13] See Grote, "H. G." v. 514, 520; Machiavelli, "Disc. s. Livio," i.
7.
[14] Reading with Sauppe, {anagke toinun, ean me} [for the vulgate
{ean men oliga k.t.l.}] {oliga poiontai dikasteria, oligoi en
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