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Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 41 (search)
ntinued down to its present form, constantly taking on additions to the power of the multitude. For the people has made itself master of everything, and administers everything by decrees and by jury courts in which the people is the ruling power, for even the cases tried by the Council have come to the people. And they seem to act rightly in doing this, for a few are more easily corrupted by gain and by influence than the many. The proposal to introduce payment for attendance at the Assembly was on the first occasion rejected; but as people were not attending the Assembly but the presidents kept contriving a number of devices to get the multitude to attend for the passing of the resolution by show of hands, first Agyrrhius introduced a fee of an obol, and after him Heracleides of Clazomenae, surnamedOr 'nicknamed' (as was Peisistratus in Eupolis's comedy Demos); but perhaps his family claimed royal descent in Asia Minor. King, two obols, and Agyrrhius again three obols.