Author: XENOPHON Hist.
Opus: Memorabilia
Reference: Xen.Mem.3.9.10
Period: Late Classical
Genre: prose
Subgenre: historiography
Object:
Gender: m
Context: office
Greek Text: ἄρχοντας οὐ τοὺς τὰ σκῆπτρα ἔχοντας ἔφη εἶναι οὐδὲ τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν τυχόντων αἱρεθέντας οὐδὲ τοὺς κλήρῳ λαχόντας
English Text: rulers, he said, are not those who hold the sceptre, nor those who are chosen by the multitude, nor those on whom the lot falls
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Kleros 897, Xen.Mem.3.9.10
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