Pseudo-Xenophon (Old Oligarch), Constitution of the Athenians
E. C. Marchant, Ed.

The people have spoiled the athletic and musical activities at Athens because they thought them unfitting (they know they can't do them).¹ In the training of dramatic choruses and in providing for athletic contests and the fitting out of triremes, they know that it is the wealthy who lead the choruses but the people who are led in them, and it is the wealthy who provide for athletic contests, but the people who are presided over in the triremes and in the games. At least the people think themselves worthy of taking money for singing, running, dancing, and sailing in ships, so that they become wealthy and the wealthy poorer. And in the courts they are not so much concerned with justice as with their own advantage.