Word: ostracizedã
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This is a strange place compared to our eternal city, clinging, in this age of empire, to outdated notions of democracy and law. Why, even as I write, the whole polity is taken up by the case of a functionary who opened his veins, in fear of being ostracized??€”in Athenian terms, being banished from the city and its colonies. The government of the city is imperilled by this—not by invading hordes at the Long Walls, nor by an insurrection of the hoi polloi...
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