Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi

whereas Agis and Cleomenes in their reforms, considering that the application of trifling and partial remedies and excisions to the disorders of the state was nothing more than cutting off a Hydra’s heads (as Plato says[*](Republic, p. 426 e.)), tried to introduce into the constitution a change which was able to transform and get rid of all evils at once;