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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschines, Speeches | 66 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 58 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 52 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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It was due then to
a reason of this nature that they went to live at Thebes; but Philolaus became the Thebans'
lawgiver in regard to various matters, among others the size of
families,—the laws called by the Thebans laws of adoption; about this
Philolaus enacted special legislation, in order that the number of the estates
in land might be preserved. There is
nothing special in the code of Charondas except the trials for false witness
(for he was the first to introduce the procedure of
denunciation), but in the accuracy of his laws he is a more finished
workman even than the legislators of today. (Peculiar to PhaleasDealt with already in 4. is the measure
for equalizing properties; to Plato,Above,
1-3 community of wives and children and of property, and the common
meals for the women, and also the law about drunkenness, enacting that sober
persons are to be masters of the drinking-bouts, and the regulation for military
and those at Thebes
did so against Archias; for their personal enemies stirred up party feeling
against them so as to get them bound in the pillory in the market-place.
Also many governments have been
put down by some of their members who had become resentful because the
oligarchies were too despotic; this is how the oligarchies fell at CnidusSee
1305b 13 n. and at Chios.
And revolutions also occur from an accident, both in what is called a
constitutional government and in those oligarchies in which membership of the
council and the law-courts and tenure of the other offices are based on a
property-qualification. For often the qualification first having been fixed to
suit the circumstances of the time, so that in an oligarchy a few may be members
and in a constitutional government the middle classes, when peace or some other
good fortune leads to a good harvest it comes about that the same properties
become worth m