estates, but powerless to harbour treacherous designs.

[33] For {oi ekpleontes}, see Grote, "H. G." vi. p. 41.

[34] Reading {misousi}; or, if with Kirchhoff, {meiousi}, "in every
way humiliate."

[35] Or, "[they do so] as recognising the fact."

[36] {atimia} = the loss of civil rights, either total or partial. See
C. R. Kennedy, "Select Speeches of Demosthenes," Note 13,
Disenfranchisement.

[37] See Thuc. viii. 48.

[38] See Grote, "H. G." vi. 53.

[39] Or, "to a thorough democrat."

Again,[40] it is looked upon as a mistaken policy on the part of the
Athenian democracy to compel her allies to voyage to Athens in order
to have their cases tried.[41] On the other hand, it is easy to reckon
up what a number of advantages the Athenian People derive from the
practice impugned. In the first place, there is the steady receipt of
salaries throughout the year[42] derived from the court fees.[43]
Next, it enables them to manage the affairs of the allied states while
seated at home without the expense of naval expeditions. Thirdly, they
thus preserve the partisans of the democracy, and ruin her opponents
in the law courts. Whereas, supposing the several allied states tried
their cases at home, being inspired by hostility to Athens, they would