In other words, liberty for the ancients was a collective good, the liberty, as he says, to resist or invade other people.

也就是说，古人的自由是集体的自由,是他们这个集体拥有抵抗和入侵他人的自由，而非每个个体。

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For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

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Liberty, in other words, for the ancients was not just a property of the individual.

但对他们而言,自由不包含私有财产这一概念。

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The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

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