title: The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology
author:  Mogens Herman Hansen 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: Danish
zlib_text: On Revenues
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  On Revenues
  by Xenophon
  Translation by H. G. Dakyns
  
  On Revenues
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   Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of
  Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens.
  Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
  years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in
  354 B.C.
  Revenues describes Xenophon's ideas to solve the problem of poverty
  in Athens, and thus remove an excuse to mistreat the Athenian allies.
  
  On Revenues
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  I
  For myself I hold to the opinion that the qualities of the leading
  statesmen in a state, whatever they be, are reproduced in the character of
  the constitution itself.[1]
  [1] "Like minister, like government." For the same idea more fully
  expressed, see "Cyrop." VIII. i. 8; viii. 5.
  As, however, it has been maintained by certain leading statesmen in
  Athens that the recognised standard of right and wrong is as high at
  Athens as elsewhere, but that, owing to the pressure of poverty on 