Abstract
This inquiry starts from two passages in book 1 of Cicero'sde Re Publica, both concerned with the failings of democracy as a political form. The first occurs in Scipio Aemilianus' opening criticism of the three unmixed constitutions. The weakness of democracy is that (1. 43)cum omnia per populum geruntur quamvis iustum atque moderatum, tamenipsa aequabilitas est iniqua, cum habet nullos gradus dignitatis:
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