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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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Those who continued to live in
the city quickly came to possess great wealth, and concluding friendship with the Crotoniates
they administered their state in admirable fashion. Establishing a democratic form of
government, they divided the citizens into ten tribes, to each of which they assigned a name
based on the nationality of those who constituted it: three tribes composed of peoples gathered
from the Peloponnesus they named the Arcadian, the
Achaean, and the Eleian; the same number, gathered from related peoples living outside the
Peloponnesus, they named the Boeotian, Amphictyonian,
and Dorian; and the remaining four, constituted from other peoples, the Ionian, the Athenian,
the Euboean, and the Islander. They also chose for their lawgiver the best man among such of
their citizens as were admired for their learning, this being Charondas.1
1 Charondas must be placed in the late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C. Aristotle (Aristot. Pol. 2.12) states that he legislated for his native city of Catana and for the other Chalcidian cities of Sicily and Italy, and praises the precision of his laws. The legal fragments which Diodorus attributes to him are taken to be of Neo-Pythagorean origin.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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