And to say that Sparta lacked the class distinctions of Rome's patrician/plebian divide is a severe error. Both because it overstates the importance of those divisions (which by the Middle Republic had ceased to matter very much - there were rich, powerful plebians)...
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We might reasonably question the rubric that belief is going to lead them to use in evaluating a society, the same way we might doubt Cicero's opinion on the divine rightness of Roman law.
And I want to be clear here - both of those men are *explicit* in this point. I'm not reading into Aristotle when he claims that the high-born and noble are simply capable of more virtue than everyone else. Nor was that a universal ancient belief.
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(Contrast Cicero on natural law, for instance, where he insists that virtue is equally possible for all persons.)
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