politeia, n.All

Politeia (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a whole mode of political life — and when Ephesus's was rotten, Heraclitus refused to give it laws and went off to play knucklebones with children.

Politeia (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be praised to death: the old pamphlet Constitution of the Athenians lauds democracy for reasons so dreadful that the eulogy reads as a radical attack.