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πλείστους δὲ ἀνάγκη ἐνθάδε πολεμίους εἶναι τοῖς εἰς ὀλιγαρχίαν μεθιστᾶσι διά τε τὸ πολυανθρωποτάτην τῶν Ἑλληνίδων τὴν πόλιν εἶναι καὶ διὰ τὸ πλεῖστον χρόνον ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ τὸν δῆμον τεθράφθαι.
It is inevitable that the people who imposed the oligarchy will have lots of enemies, both because the city is the most populated in Greece, and also because the people have been raised for an extremely long time to be free.
Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.25

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