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Yes, his testimony supports us; so let us take him as evidence that polities of this sort do sometimes come into existence.Clinias
Quite right.Athenian
Did they not originate with those people who lived scattered in separate clans or in single households, owing to the distress which followed after the catastrophes; for amongst these the eldest holds rule, owing to the fact that the rule proceeds from the parents,
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