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even laid upon them a new tax
It follows from the success of Peisistratos that the mass of the people, blind to the importance of the political rights conferred upon them, were conscious of no such betterment from Solon's "shaking-off-of-burdens" as could make them averse to the rule of a "tyrant" who even laid upon them a new tax.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

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