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 1 3 |    Athenian. And of cities or governments or legislation, about which
 2 3 |      are and have: cities and governments, and arts and laws, and
 3 3 |     have gone through various governments and settlements, and have
 4 3 | striking instances of laws or governments being the salvation or destruction
 5 3 |  consideration of the Persian governments led us thus far to enlarge.
 6 4 |    are constantly overturning governments and changing laws. And the
 7 4 |       of laws as there are of governments, and of the latter we have
 8 4 |   according to our view, such governments are not polities at all,
 9 8 | Proceed.~Athenian. I say that governments are a cause—democracy, oligarchy,
10 8 | previous discourse; or rather governments they are not, for none of
11 10|       year, and in cities and governments has another name, which