Ways and Means

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 1.8 2.1 – 2.4 2.5 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.5 3.6 – 3.9 3.10 – 3.14 4.1 – 4.4 4.5 – 4.8 4.9 – 4.13 4.14 – 4.18 4.19 – 4.21 4.22 – 4.24 4.25 – 4.29 4.30 – 4.33 4.34 – 4.39 4.40 – 4.42 4.43 – 4.46 4.47 – 4.50 4.51 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.5 5.6 – 5.10 5.11 – 5.13 6.1 – 6.3

İngilizce Yunanca

2.5 If, moreover, we granted the resident aliens the right to serve in the cavalry and various other privileges which it is proper to grant them, I think that we should find their loyalty increase and at the same time should add to the strength and greatness of the state.

2.6 Then again, since there are many vacant sites for houses within the walls, if the state allowed approved applicants to erect houses on these and granted them the freehold of the land, I think that we should find a larger and better class of persons desiring to live at Athens.

2.7 And if we appointed a board of Guardians of Aliens analogous to the Guardians of Orphans, and some kind of distinction were earmarked for guardians whose list of resident aliens was longest, that too would add to the loyalty of the aliens, and probably all without a city would covet the right of settling in Athens, and would increase our revenues.

3.1 I shall now say something of the unrivalled amenities and advantages of our city as a commercial centre.

3.1 In the first place, I presume, she possesses the finest and safest accomodation for shipping, since vessels can anchor here and ride safe at their moorings in spite of bad weather.