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 1 3 |       making the power of your twenty–eight elders equal with
 2 6 |        hold office longer than twenty years, and shall not be
 3 6 |   these shall be not less than twenty–five years of age, and not
 4 6 |      elected by lot out of the twenty who have been chosen previously,
 5 6 | ordains.~Whenever any one over twenty–five years of age, having
 6 6 |       shall be from sixteen to twenty years at the longest—for
 7 6 |       a man go out to war from twenty to sixty years, and for
 8 7 |     even contend that a man at twenty–five does not reach twice
 9 8 |      if they are not more than twenty, and shall be compelled
10 8 |        whole month; and on the twenty–third day there shall be
11 8 |        and not abide more than twenty years from the time at which
12 8 |      and selling. But when the twenty years have expired, he shall
13 8 |        and let them remain for twenty years, and then go where
14 9 |   shall respect any one who is twenty years older than himself,
15 9 |        than himself, either by twenty or by more years, in the
16 9 |      smite one who is older by twenty years or more, the same
17 9 |     fourth class, by a fine of twenty drachmas; and the generals
18 11|  remain in the state more than twenty years, but like other foreigners