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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: democratic party has been enslaved, as for instance in Boeotia;[20]
or, as when they chose the aristocrats of the Milesians, and within a
short time these revolted and cut the people to pieces; or, as when
they chose the Lacedaemonians as against the Messenians, and within a
short time the Lacedaemonians subjugated the Messenians and went to
war against Athens.
[19] I.e. "birds of a feather."
[20] The references are perhaps (1) to the events of the year 447
B.C., see Thuc. i. 113; cf. Aristot. "Pol." v. 3, 5; (2) to 440
B.C., Thuc. i. 115; Diod. xii. 27, 28; Plut. "Pericl." c. 24; (3)
to those of 464 B.C., followed by 457 B.C., Thuc. i. 102; Plut.
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