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.
"Cimon," c. 16; and Thuc. i. 108.

I seem to overhear a retort, "No one, of course, is deprived of his
civil rights at Athens unjustly." My answer is, that there are some
who are unjustly deprived of their civil rights, though the cases are
certainly rare. But it will take more than a few to attack the
democracy at Athens, since you may take it as an established fact, it
is not the man who has lost his civil rights justly that takes the
matter to heart, but the victims, if any, of injustice. But how in the
world can any one imagine that many are in a state of civil disability
at Athens, where the People and the holders of office are one and the
same? It is from iniquitous exercise of office, from iniquity
exhibited either in speech or action, and the like circumstances, that
citizens are punished with deprivation of civil rights in Athens. Due
reflection on these matters will serve to dispel the notion that there
is any danger at Athens from persons visited with disenfranchisement.





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