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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: Rich men have in some cases private gymnasia and baths with dressing-
rooms,[9] but the People takes care to have built at the public
cost[10] a number of palaestras, dressing-rooms, and bathing
establishments for its own special use, and the mob gets the benefit
of the majority of these, rather than the select few or the well-to-
do.
[8] Reading with Kirchhoff, {istasthai}.
[9] See Jebb, "Theophr. Char." vii. 18, p. 202.
[10] Reading with Kirchhoff, {demosia}.
As to wealth, the Athenians are exceptionally placed with regard to
Hellenic and foreign communities alike,[11] in their ability to hold
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