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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Amongst the numerous difficult passages of the anonymous Constitution of the Athenians the present one, as a whole, has particularly tenaciously resisted attempts at interpretation or elucidation in spite of progress made as to a number of details. One major obstacle to a real understanding of this sentence (but by no means the only one) is the corrupt phrase in the final clause.
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3 N. b. Thucydides 1.81.4:
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5 E.g. E. Kalinka (n. 4). p. 69, or H. Frisch (n. 4), p. 17.
6 The evidence is collected by E. Kalinka (n. 4), pp. 129–32. Cf. more recently de Ste. Croix, CSAGW, p. 563 n. 9.
7 Cf. the parallel in Plato, Republic 569a: …, 
(SC. the 
)
…(i.e. the son, who, although an adult, is still supported by his father).
8 Cf. LSJ s.v.
III 6
9 Cf. Ath. 3.3, 
….
