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What, in particular, do you refer to? Explain still more clearly. I mean, is it a democracy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or a monarchy? For certainly you cannot mean a tyranny: that we can never suppose.Athenian
Come now, which of you two would like to answer me first and tell me to which of these kinds his own polity at home belongs?Megillus
Is it not proper that I, as the elder, should answer first?
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