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 | | League the system was the simplest precaution against disaffection on the part of the allies, the strength of whose resentment may be gathered from an inscription (Hicks and Hill, sor [81]), which, in setting forth the.terms of the second Delian Confederacy, expressly forbids the holding of land by Athenians in allied territory. |
 | | A secondary object of the cleruchies was social or agrarian, to provide a source of livelihood to the poorer Athenians. |
 | | Plutarch (Pericles, 11) suggests that Pericles by this means rid the city of the idle and mischievous loafers; but it would appear that the cleruchs were selected by lot, and in any case a wise policy would not deliberately entrust important military duties to recognized wastreis. |
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