The Greek Commonwealth Politics And Economics in Fifth Century Athens
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Indeed they quickly grew accustomed to the judicial mood, and would put on the judge's wig even when it was wholly inappropriate. ' Do remember, ' begs a speaker in a difficult debate on policy, ' that you are not sitting in a law court thinking out what sentence these people have deserved, but sitting in Parliament to discover what course is best for your- selves. ' Euripides makes a suppliant for Athenian aid put in a similar reminder, when Theseus had given him a long lecture from the Bench.... For Athens took her own duties, as she took everything, very seriously, and did her best, in an imperfect world, however complicated the problem, to mete out fair decisions. Nor had the teachers of rhetoric yet appeared to cloud the plain citizen's common sense with their intellectual monkey tricks.^ Athens had thus become recognized as a model State ; and Greece was in the mood to adopt or imitate her ways in small things as in great. We can see this in the rapid spread of Athenian weights and measures and the Athenian coinage, or of systems arranged so as to work in with them.
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