Hence the reception of strangers in colonies, either at
the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced
revolution; for example, the Achaeans who joined the Troezenians in
the foundation of Sybaris, becoming later the more numerous,
expelled them; hence the curse fell upon Sybaris. At Thurii the
Sybarites quarrelled with their fellow-colonists; thinking that the
land belonged to them, they wanted too much of it and were driven out.
At Byzantium the new colonists were detected in a conspiracy, and were
expelled by force of arms; the people of Antissa, who had received the
Chian exiles, fought with them, and drove them out; and the Zancleans,
after having received the Samians, were driven by them out of their
own city. The citizens of Apollonia on the Euxine, after the
introduction of a fresh body of colonists, had a revolution; the
Syracusans, after the expulsion of their tyrants, having admitted
strangers and mercenaries to the rights of citizenship, quarrelled and
came to blows; the people of Amphipolis, having received Chalcidian
colonists, were nearly all expelled by them.
Now, in oligarchies the masses make revolution under the idea that
they are unjustly treated, because, as I said before, they are equals,
and have not an equal share, and in democracies the notables revolt,
because they are not equals, and yet have only an equal share.
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