the decarchies
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decarchies · decarchy · ten men
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Panathenaicus (Greek) · To Philip (Greek)
For our fathers tried to persuade their allies to establish the very same polity in their cities as they themselves had continually cherished;
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Panathenaicus
The ten-man oligarchic governments imposed by Sparta in subject states and condemned as lawless and oppressive.
For our fathers tried to persuade their allies to establish the very same polity in their cities as they themselves had continually cherished;
In the next place, they paid their quotas, not to preserve Athens, but to preserve their own democratic polity and their own freedom and to escape falling into such great misfortunes, through the setting up of oligarchies, as were suffered under the decarchies and the domination of the Lacedaemonians.
but as it is, no such words occur to me other than those which are on the lips of all men, namely, that they so far outdid all those who lived before their time in lawlessness and greed that they not only ruined themselves and their friends and their own countries but also brought the Lacedaemonians into evil repute with their allies and plunged them into misfortunes so many and so grave as no one …
To Philip
Spartan-backed oligarchic regimes that made Greeks fear a heavier yoke if Cyrus and Clearchus succeeded.
they, on the other hand, found the Hellenes intensely hostile because of the decarchies which the Lacedaemonians had set up;
Hellenica
The system of ten-man oligarchic governments that Lysander had installed in the Asian Greek cities after the war, later overturned by the ephors and criticized as oppressive.
for instead of freedom they have given them a double servitude—they are under the tyrant rule both of the governors and of the decarchies which Lysander established in each city.
Such were the motives which actuated Lysander, but, in addition, he wanted to make the expedition with Agesilaus on his own account also, in order that with the aid of Agesilaus he might re-establish the decarchies which had been set up by him in the cities, but had been overthrown through the ephors, who had issued a proclamation restoring to the cities their ancient form of government.
Meanwhile, during the time that Agesilaus was spending in quiet and leisure at Ephesus, since the governments in the cities were in a state of confusion—for it was no longer democracy, as in the time of Athenian rule, nor decarchy, as in the time of Lysander—and since the people all knew Lysander, they beset him with requests that he should obtain from Agesilaus the granting of their petitions;