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At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.
The common people were numerically dominant in the navy, which they used to pursue their own interests in the form of work as rowers and in the hundreds of overseas administrative positions.
Further they used the income from empire to fund payment for officeholding.
This is the position set out by the anti-democratic pamphlet known whose anonymous author is often called the Old Oligarch.

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