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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb] Hmm. To be literally accurate, "democratic" means "ruled by warrior councils". "Demos" was the council of free men in yer typical enlightened Greek city-state. And to be a free man was to be a warrior.[/qb][/QUOTE]Not quite. A citizen who was disabled, and who therefore couldn't fight, was still a citizen, and still had political rights. "democracy" literally means "rule by the demos", and "demos" means either "the common people" or "all citizens" depending on the context. It is true that citizens in Ancient Greece were always men, but that fact is not conveyed by the meaning of "demos". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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