To your town the terms and fates
My father gives of many states.
Be not anxious or afraid:
The bladder will not fail to swim
On the waves that compass him.

Which oracle, they say, one of the sibyls long after did in a
manner repeat to the Athenians, in this verse:

The bladder may be dipt, but not be drowned.

Farther yet designing to enlarge his city, he invited all
strangers to come and enjoy equal privileges with the natives, and
it is said that the common form, "Come hither all ye people," was
the words that Theseus proclaimed when he thus set up a
commonwealth, in a manner, for all nations. Yet he did not suffer
his state, by the promiscuous multitude that flowed in, to be
turned into confusion and be left without any order or degree, but
was the first that divided the commonwealth into three distinct
ranks, the noblemen, the husbandmen, and artificers. To the
nobility he committed the care of religion, the choice of
magistrates, the teaching and dispensing of the laws, and
interpretation and direction in all sacred matters; the whole city
being, as it were, reduced to an exact equality, the nobles
excelling the rest in honor, the husbandmen in profit, and the
artifices in number. And that Theseus was the first, who, as
Aristotle says, out of an inclination to popular government,
parted with the regal power, Homer also seems to testify, in his
catalogue of ships, where he gives the name of "People" to the
Athenians only.