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The Origin of Tyranny

Note 1331 — Chapter IX · Sicyon, Megara, Miletus, Ephesus, Leontini, Agrigentum, Cumae

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Poll. VII. 685; Mariéjol, de Orthagoridis, pp. 11–12, compares the Megareans who

πρόσθ’ οὔτε δίκας ᾔδεσαν οὔτε νόμους,

ἀλλ’ ἀμφὶ πλευρῇσι δορὰς αἰγῶν κατέτριβον,

ἔξω δ’ ὥστ’ ἔλαφοι τῆσδε νέμοντο πόλεος

καὶ νῦν εἴσ’ ἀγαθοί. Theognis 54–7.

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