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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: [11] See Grote, "H. G." vi. p. 48; Thuc. vii. 78; i. 96; Arist.
"Wasps," 707; Aristot. "Pol." v. 8.
I put it to you, then: can any one suppose that all, or any, of these
may dispense with adjudication?[12] If so, will any one say which
ought, and which ought not, to be adjudicated on, there and then? If,
on the other hand, we are forced to admit that these are all fair
cases for adjudication, it follows of necessity that they should be
decided during the twelve-month; since even now the boards of judges
sitting right through the year are powerless to stay the tide of
evildoing by reason of the multitude of the people.
[12] Reading with Kirchhoff. Cf. for {oiesthai khre}, "Hell." VI. iv.
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