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The thing that strikes me about Europe’s archons of austerity, its doyens of deflation, is their self-indulgence.

All those years of running from city to city one step ahead of the Usurper's knives, pleading for help from archons and princes and magisters, buying our food with flattery.

Had such heresies been spoken in Athens, where the effects of a religious revival were still in force, the “secular arm” of the archons would probably have made short work of Xenophanes.

Old forms and names remain—there are still consuls and archons, poets and philosophers, but the atmosphere is another, and the names have a new meaning, if they have any at all.

Parasites were two in number for each of the archons, and one for the polemarchs.