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enslaving and subjecting as perioeci and
serfs1 their former
friends2 and
supporters, of whose freedom they had been the guardians, and occupying
themselves with war and keeping watch over these subjects.”
“I think,” he said, “that this is the
starting-point of the transformation.” “Would not this
polity, then,” said I, “be in some sort intermediate
between aristocracy and oligarchy ?” “By all
means.”“By this
change, then, it would arise. But after the change
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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