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Thus had Clisthenes the Sicyonian done. The Athenian Clisthenes,
who was grandson by the mother's side of the other, and had been named
after him, resolved, from contempt (as I believe) of the Ionians,
that his tribes should not be the same as theirs; and so followed the
pattern set him by his namesake of Sicyon. Having brought entirely
over to his own side the common people of Athens, whom he had before
disdained, he gave all the tribes new names, and made the number
greater than formerly; instead of the four phylarchs he established
ten; he likewise placed ten demes in each of the tribes; and he was,
now that the common people took his part, very much more powerful than
his adversaries.
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