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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: one of the People, prefers to live in a state democratically governed
rather than in an oligarchical state may be said to smooth his own
path towards iniquity. He knows that a bad man has a better chance of
slipping through the fingers of justice in a democratic than in an
oligarchical state.
[26] Or, "and which are good for nothing."
[27] Or,"its own friends and supporters."
[28] Reading {ontes} or (if {gnontes}), "who, recognising the nature
of the People, have no popular leaning." Gutschmidt conj. {enioi
egguoi ontes}, i.e. Pericles.
[29] On the principle that "the knee is nearer than the shin-bone,"
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