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τὸ πολιτικόν: the whole citizen body (L. & S.) rather than the ‘constitution of the state’ (Stein).

κατὰ νόμους. Xerxes, with a knowledge of improbable exactitude, alludes to the Spartan kings' double portion at feasts (vi. 57. 1 and 3); double service might therefore be expected of them.

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