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[684b] when wronged, and the peoples aid both peoples and kings. Was not that the way of it?

Megillus
It was.

Athenian
In the polities legally established—whether by the kings or others—in the three States, was not this the most important principle?

Megillus
What?

Athenian
That the other two States should always help against the third, whenever it disobeyed the laws laid down.

Megillus
Evidently.

Athenian
And surely most people insist on this,—

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