[3] Cf. "Mem." I. ii. 58 foll.

[4] Lit. "ply the oar and propel the galleys."

[5] See "Econ." viii. 14; Pollux, i. 96; Arist. "Knights," 543 foll.;
Plat. "Laws," v. 707 A; Jowett, "Plat." v. 278 foll.; Boeckh, "P.
E. A." bk. ii. ch. xxi.

[6] Lit. "pentecontarch;" see Dem. "In Pol." 1212.

[7] Aristot. "Pol." vi. 7; Jowett, "The Politics of Aristotle," vol.
i. p. 109.

[8] {klerotoi}, {airetoi}.

[9] Reading with Kirchhoff, {epeo tou}, or if {epeita}, "in the next
place."

[10] Hipparch.

[11] Cf. "Hipparch." i. 9; "Econ." ii. 8.

[12] E.g. the {dikasteria}.

In the next place, in regard to what some people are puzzled to
explain--the fact that everywhere greater consideration is shown to
the base, to poor people and to common folk, than to persons of good
quality--so far from being a matter of surprise, this, as can be
shown, is the keystone of the preservation of the democracy. It is