Question #150694. Asked by
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Last updated Feb 23 2024.
Originally posted Feb 23 2024 9:04 PM.
The phrase probably became known to English scholars through Pericles' Funeral Oration, as mentioned in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles uses it in a positive way when praising the Athenian democracy, contrasting it with hoi oligoi, "the few"
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