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Athenians, now in the British Library (Papyrus 131)  The
Constitution of the Athenians (or Athenaion Politeia, or The
Athenian constitution; Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) is the name of
either of two texts from Classical antiquity, one probably by
Aristotle or a student of his, the other attributed to Xenophon,
but not by him. The Aristotelian text is contained in two leaves
of a papyrus codex discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in 1879. The
other work was traditionally included among the shorter works of
Xenophon.   A facsimile of the papyrus with the text
"Constitution of the Athenians" by Aristotle.  The Aristotelian
text is unique, because it is not a part of the Corpus
Aristotelicum. It was lost until two leaves of a papyrus codex
carrying part of the text were discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
in 1879 and published in 1880.1 A second, more extensive papyrus
text was purchased in Egypt by an A