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Thurii (search for this): book 5, section 1307b
And aristocracies are most liable to undergo revolution
unobserved, through gradual relaxation, just as it has been said in what has
gone before about all forms of constitution in general, that even a small change
may cause a revolution. For when they give up one of the details of the
constitution, afterwards they also make another slightly bigger change more
readily, until they alter the whole system. This occurred for instance with the constitution of
Thurii. There was a law that the
office of general could be held at intervals of four years, but some of the
younger men, becoming warlike and winning high repute with the mass of the
guards, came to despise the men engaged in affairs, and thought that they would
easily get control; so first they tried to repeal the law referred to, so as to
enable the same persons to serve as generals continuously, as they saw that the
people would vote for themselves with enthusiasm. And tho