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that it did not beget and establish him in order that, when he had grown
great, it, in servitude to its own slaves, should feed him and the slaves
together with a nondescript rabble of aliens, but in order that, with him
for protector, it might be liberated from the rule of the rich and the
so-called ‘better classes,’1 and that it now bids him and his crew
depart from the city as a father expels2 from his house a
son together with troublesome revellers?” “The demos, by
Zeus,” he said, “will then learn to its cost3
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