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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: ephors."
[20] Technically the {tamiai}.
[21] See Aristot. "Pol." iii. 14.
XIV[1]
Now, if the question be put to me, Do you maintain that the laws of
Lycurgus remain still to this day unchanged? that indeed is an
assertion which I should no longer venture to maintain; knowing, as I
do, that in former times the Lacedaemonians preferred to live at home
on moderate means, content to associate exclusively with themselves
rather than to play the part of governor-general[2] in foreign states
and to be corrupted by flattery; knowing further, as I do, that
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