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The Roman Republic Compared with Others
Nearly all historians have recorded as constitutions
The Theban constitution may be put aside.
of eminent excellence those of Lacedaemonia,
Crete, Mantinea, and Carthage. Some have
also mentioned those of Athens and Thebes.
The former I may allow to pass; but I am convinced that
little need be said of the Athenian and Theban constitutions: their growth was abnormal, the period of their
zenith brief, and the changes they experienced unusually
violent. Their glory was a sudden and fortuitous flash, so to
speak; and while they still thought themselves prosperous, and
likely to remain so, they found themselves involved in
circumstances completely the reverse. The Thebans got their
reputation for valour among the Greeks, by taking advantage
of the senseless policy of the Lacedaemonians, and the hatred
of the allies towards them, owing to the valour of one, or at
most two, men who were wise enough to appreciate the
situation. Since fortune quickly m
The Cretan Constitution Compared to the Spartan
Passing to the Cretan polity there are two points
The Spartan polity unlike that of Crete.
which deserve our consideration. The first
is how such writers as Ephorus, Xenophon,
Callisthenes and PlatoFor what remains of the account of Ephorus see Strabo, 10.4.8-9. The
reference to Plato is to the "Laws," especially Book I. See also Aristotle, Pol.
2, 10, who points out the likeness and unlikeness between the Cretan and
Lacedaemonian constitutions.—who are the most
learned of the ancients—could assert that it was like that
of Sparta; and secondly how they came to assert that it was
at all admirable. I can agree with neither assertion; and
I will explain why I say so. And first as to its dissimilarity
with the Spartan constitution. The peculiar merit of the latter
is said to be its land laws, by which no one possesses more than
another, but all citizens have an equal share in the public
land.This equality of land had gradually disappeared b
Greed Among the Cretans
Among the Cretans the exact reverse of all these arrangements
obtains. The laws allow them to possess as much land
as they can get with no limitation whatever. Money is so
highly valued among them, that its possession is not only
thought to be necessary but in the highest degree creditable.
And in fact greed and avarice are so native to the soil in
Crete, that they are the only people in the world among whom
no stigma attaches to any sort of gain whatever. Again all
their offices are annual and on a democratical footing. I have
therefore often felt at a loss to account for these writers
speaking of the two constitutions, which are radically different,
as though they were closely united and allied. But, besides
overlooking these important differences, these writers have
gone out of their way to comment at length on the legislation
of Lycurgus: "He was the only legislator," they say, "who
saw the important points. For there being two things on
which the safety