If a youth or a grown man breaks the law he is brought into court by the governors of his tribe, who act as suitors in the case, aided by any other citizen who pleases.

The cause is heard before the elders and they pronounce judgment; and the man who is condemned is disenfranchised for the rest of his days.
[15] And now, to complete the picture of the whole Persian policy, I will go back a little.

With the help of what has been said before, the account may now be brief; the Persians are said to number something like one hundred and twenty thousand men: and of these no one is by law debarred from honour or office.

On the contrary, every Persian is entitled to send his children to the public schools of righteousness and justice.

As a fact, all who can afford to bring up their children without working do send them there: those who cannot must forego the privilege.