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115 So that no one could justly condemn those who chose our present polity.This making a virtue of necessity is inconsistent with Isocrates’ uncompromising attitude toward the excesses of the later democracy in the Isoc. 7., the Isoc. 8., and even in this discourse. For they were not disappointed in their expectations, nor were they at all blind to both the good and the bad features attached to either form of rule, but, on the contrary, saw clearly that while a land-power is fostered by order and sobriety and discipline and other like qualities,Cf. Isoc. 8.102. a sea-power is not augmented by these

116 but by the crafts which have to do with the building of ships and by men who are able to row them—men who have lost their own possessions and are accustomed to derive their livelihood from the possessions of others.The homeless refugees who enlisted in the naval service of Athens for pay and the chance to pillage. See especially Isoc. 8.44 ff. and Isoc. Letter 9.9. Our fathers did not fail to foresee that with the introduction of these elements into the state the order and discipline of the former polity would be relaxedCf. Eur. Hec. 607: ναυτική τ′ ἀναρχία. and that the good will of our allies would soon undergo a change when the Athenians should compel the Hellenes, to whom they had previously given lands and cities, to pay contributions and tribute to Athens in order that she might have the means to pay the kind of men whom I mentioned a moment ago.

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