Pseudo-Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, chapter 1, section 2

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πρῶτον μὲν οὖν τοῦτο ἐρῶ, ὅτι δικαίως <δοκοῦσιν> αὐτόθι [καὶ] οἱ πένητες καὶ ὁ δῆμος πλέον ἔχειν τῶν γενναίων καὶ τῶν πλουσίων διὰ τόδε, ὅτι ὁ δῆμός ἐστιν ὁ ἐλαύνων τὰς ναῦς καὶ ὁ τὴν δύναμιν περιτιθεὶς τῇ πόλει, καὶ οἱ κυβερνῆται καὶ οἱ κελευσταὶ καὶ οἱ πεντηκόνταρχοι καὶ οἱ πρῳρᾶται καὶ οἱ ναυπηγοί, —οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ τὴν δύναμιν περιτιθέντες τῇ πόλει πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ οἱ ὁπλῖται καὶ οἱ γενναῖοι καὶ οἱ χρηστοί. ἐπειδὴ οὖν ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχει, δοκεῖ δίκαιον εἶναι πᾶσι τῶν ἀρχῶν μετεῖναι ἔν τε τῷ κλήρῳ καὶ ἐν τῇ χειροτονίᾳ, καὶ λέγειν ἐξεῖναι τῷ βουλομένῳ τῶν πολιτῶν.

Xenophon. Xenophontis opera omnia, vol. 5. E. C. Marchant. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1920 (repr. 1969).

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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 8
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- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Archaic Age
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- LSJ, κλῆρος
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- LSJ, πρῳρ-άτης