If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust?.. this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Works of Aristotle: Politica, by B. Jowett. Oeconomica, by E. S. Forster. Atheniensium respublica, by Sir F. G. Kenyon. 1921 (ed. 1921)