Note 476 — Chapter IV · XENOPHON
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Cf. how naïvely he takes for granted the feasibility of his schemes in the Revenues. Cf. the opening sentence of the work, “As are the governors [προστάται], so are the governments [πολιτείας]” cited by Poehlmann (op. cit., I, 299) as the illusion of socialism; but it might easily be expressed by a conservative. Plato (Rep. 544D) expresses a similar idea.