-VOTES, BOOK rrr. 10. 127
‘,4s a confederacy is not a city, SO a number of individuals
uniting in the same manner in which cities form a confederacy,
,,.auld not be a city, unless they changed ,their manner of life after
The main distinction which Aristotlc draw between
tilr confederacy, in which many cities are united by a treaty, and
tile single city is that the object of the one is negative, of the other
l,ositive,-the one regards the citizens in some particular aspect,
e, g. n.ith a view to the prevention of piracy or the encouragement
commerce ; the other takes in their whole life and education.
Xl‘+ro rj Xv old? Gump dirt. I. e. If every man were lord in
his own house or castle, and only made a treaty with his neigh-
Lours like the cities in a federation;’ in other words, if the in-
hLlibitants of the common city had no social relations.
~oriB~S~cs is parallel with KOlUoUOhfS, and in apposition with the
nominative to uuvlh8otcu.
union.’~iti Gruyoyn‘r TOG uu(rju. 9.13.
Searly=rpdnor 70; UU(+J, ‘pleasant modes of common life,’ or
ii!oIr freely ‘ eiijoynients of society,’ not ‘ relaxations for he salx of
-ocirty,’ a construction not admissible in prose.
Zxrr 6’ diropiau K.T.~. 10. I.
The argument of this chapter consists of a series of drropiar which
may be raised against the claims of any one person or class to
have the supreme power. The drropiar are restated somewhat less
sharply in the next chapter. They are indirectly, but not distinctly
or completely, answered in the latter part of c. 13.
ZWe yQ urj 4ia r+ KV~+ Gtraiws. 10. I.
It is difficult to account for this sudden outburst of vivacity.
Compare infra c. 11. s 5, ~uws 6; urj 4ia ~tjhou o*TL mpi auiou dG6uarou :
CP. Xen. Nem. v. 1. 4, dhhh uai pLh 4ia rd6r d&du poi 8oKri rtar: Dem. de
Chersones. $$ 9, 17 ; Polyb. vi. 3. $ 6, sdrfpov &F pduas rakw 3 KU‘~
vi A: ts cipiuras {p;u ciupyoiwar IrohrrsrGu; and the use of Hercule
in Tacit. Ann. i. 3.
The whole passage is a kind of suppressed dialogue in which two
oPPosire opinions are abruptly brought face to face. No conclusion
drawn; the only inference being really the impossible one that all
forlns of government are equally baseless, because they are not