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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: disestablished them,[28] not from any disbelief in the beauty and
honour of such training, but recognising the fact that these are
things the cultivation of which is beyond its power. On the same
principle, in the case of the coregia,[29] the gymnasiarchy, and the
trierarchy, the fact is recognised that it is the rich man who trains
the chorus, and the People for whom the chorus is trained; it is the
rich man who is trierarch or gymnasiarch, and the People that profits
by their labours.[30] In fact, what the People looks upon as its right
is to pocket the money.[31] To sing and run and dance and man the
vessels is well enough, but only in order that the People may be the
gainer, while the rich are made poorer. And so in the courts of
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