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Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi (2.2)

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whereas Agis and Cleomenes in their reforms, considering that the application of trifling and partial remedies and excisions to the disorders of the state was nothing more than cutting off a Hydras heads (as Plato says[*]), tried to introduce into the constitution a change which was able to transform and get rid of all evils at once;

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