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but not because
owners of much more than the average amount of property think it unjust for
those who do not own any property to have an equal share in the state with those
who do; and in many oligarchies those in office are not allowed to engage in
business, but there are laws preventing it, whereas in Carthage, which has a democratic
government,Apparently this clause also
is an interpolation, or ‘democratic’ is a copyist's
mistake for ‘oligarchic’ or
‘timocratic,’ see 1272b 24 ff. the magistrates go
in for business, and they have not yet had a revolution. And it is also a strange remark
Plat. Rep. 551d
that the oligarchical state is two states, one of rich men and one of
poor men. For what has happened to this state rather than to the Spartan or any
other sort of state where all do not own an equal amount of wealth or where all
are not equally good men? and when nobody has become poorer than he was befor
And at once there came to him ambassadors from both the cities and rulers which had
formerly opposed him, asking forgiveness for their past mistakes and promising for the future
to carry out his every command. With all of them he dealt equitably and concluded alliances,
bearing his good fortune as men should, not toward them alone but even toward the
Carthaginians, his bitterest foes. For when the ambassadors
who had been dispatched from Carthage came to him
and begged him with tears to treat them humanely, he granted them peace, exacting of them the
expense he had incurred for the war, two thousand talents of silver, and requiring them further
to build two temples in which they should place copies of the treaty. The Carthaginians, having unexpectedly gained their deliverance, not only agreed to all
this but also promised to give in addition a gold crown to Damarete, the wife of Gelon. For
Damarete at their request had contributed the g