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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: at Athens. Further still, supposing the allies had not to resort to
Athens for the hearing of cases, only the official representative of
the imperial state would be held in honour, such as the general, or
trierarch, or ambassador. Whereas now every single individual among
the allies is forced to pay flattery to the People of Athens because
he knows that he must betake himself to Athens and win or lose[48] his
case at the bar, not of any stray set of judges, but of the sovereign
People itself, such being the law and custom at Athens. He is
compelled to behave as a suppliant[49] in the courts of justice, and
when some juryman comes into court, to grasp his hand. For this
reason, therefore, the allies find themselves more and more in the
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