Clisthenes
Britishnoun
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Is this the rascal of whom Clisthenes told us?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
Clisthenes also introduced the OSTRACISM, by which an Athenian citizen might be banished without special accusation, trial, or defence for ten years, which term was subsequently reduced to five.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
The last of this dynasty was Clis'thenes, whose daughter became the mother of the Athenian Clisthenes, the founder of democracy at Athens on the expulsion of the Pisistrat'idæ.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
The institutions of Clisthenes had given her citizens a personal interest in the welfare and the grandeur of their country, and a spirit of the warmest patriotism rapidly sprung up among them.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
Clisthenes, it is said, also established the curious arrangement known as ostracism.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
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