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The system of repairing the fortunes of decayed grandees at the expense of the subjects, by despatching them as tax-assessors and taskwork-overseers to the dependent communitiesthat infallible token of a rotten urban oligarchywas not wanting in Carthage; Aristotle describes it as the main cause of the tried durability of the Carthaginian constitution.