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Thera (Greece) (search for this): book 4, section 1290b
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when the free are sovereign and an oligarchy
when the rich are, but that it comes about that the sovereign class in a
democracy is numerous and that in an oligarchy small because there are many men
of free birth and few rich. For otherwise, suppose people assigned the offices
by height, as some personse.g. Hdt. 3.20. say is done in Ethiopia, or by beauty, that would be an
oligarchy, because both the handsome and the tall are few in number. Nevertheless it is not enough to define
these constitutions even by wealth and free birth only; but inasmuch as there
are more elements than one both in democracy and in oligarchy, we must add the
further distinction that neither is it a democracy if the freei.e. those of citizen birth. being few
govern the majority who are not of free birth, as for instance at Apollonia on the Ionian Gulf and at
Thera (for in each of
these cities the offices of honor were filled by the specially noble families