| 62. See M. I. Finley, "Athenian Demagogues," Past and Present 21 (1962), pp. 1516.
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| 63. This is the view of Rudi Thomsen, The Origin of Ostracism (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1972), especially p. 114.
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| 64. Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution 43.5. Hansen, however, points out that it was never used during the fourth century: The Athenian Assembly , p. 144, n. 141.
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| 65. There is confusion in the ancient sources about whether this meant one person had to receive 6,000 votes against him or whether 3,001 of a total of 6,000 votes was sufficient. See Thomsen, Origin of Ostracism , pp. 6667, n. 23, for a discussion of the evidence.
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| 66. Fitzgerald, "Limitations on Freedom of Speech," p. 42.
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| 67. Aristotle, Politics 1298a29.
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| 68. Hansen, Athenian Assembly , p. 130.
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| 69. Wirszubski, Libertas As a Political Idea at Rome , p. 18.
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| 70. A. G. Woodhead, "Isegoria," p. 130.
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| 71. Here the emphasis is on the political or public realm. As Wirszubski puts it in Libertas As a Political Idea at Rome : "Under the principate the ruling law which had been the basis of libertas was in fact replaced by the will of the Princeps. Within the Roman community itself, the possession of libertas became a gift rather than a right and, ceasing to be a right, lost what had been its essential quality" (p. 171). In the personal realm, Roman citizens continued to enjoy certain protections under the legal system even under the empire.
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| 72. Syme, Roman Revolution , pp. 2, 9.
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