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A majority vote of the citizens would condemn the target to exile for ten years. It was a way of getting rid of your political opponents.

It was notably used by Pericles to get rid of his opponent Thucydides son of Melesias when Thucydides formed what is the first recorded political party and used their disciplined voting in the Assembly to stymie Pericles' attempts to get up his political fixes. Thucydides' exile left his party in disarray and left the door open for Pericles to be an over-influential leader of the Athenian democracy.

This had some good outcomes for Athens, but Pericles over-reached himself and manoeuvred the city into the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War which Athens lost.

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