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Quotation from The Histories, Book VI by Polybius
“This is the regular cycle of constitutional revolutions, and the natural order in which constitutions change, are transformed, and return again to their original stage.”
The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, ch. 9, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Polybius sums up the sequence that runs from despotism through kingship, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy and democracy to mob-rule and back.
Citation: "This is the regular cycle of constitutional revolutions, and the natural order in which constitutions change, are transformed, and return again to their original stage." — Polybius, The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, ch. 9, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. (id polybius-histories-book-vi-q1)
