XOTES, BOOK m. 16. I43
kc; 8; ra; pfl[oUS f&Ol UUU,%&Kf ThS 7io'XflS, ?UoS 068; ~~6iOV ;TI 16. 13.
yiyvfadaL noXtrciav iripnv srrpir GqpowparLav.
Here as elsewhere iv. 6. $ j, hc accepts democracy not as a
but as a necessity, which arises as soon as wealth begins to
flo\v and tradesmen 'circulate' in the agora, vi. 4. 13 ; and
tilz numbers of the people become disproportioned to the numbers
oi' the governing class.
+or Jvayrniov i~dpx~ a+ G;uaprv, J @uX(i[ci roir vdpovs.
Compare Ivhat vas said above c. 13. $ 22, Zurc aid roh K.r.X,
tlldt there need be no disagreement between a king and his
siibjccts, becausc lie is sometimes obliged to use force to thcm.'
Or, according to the other mode of interpreting the passagc, ' there
is no difference betwen a king and a free state because ' Bc.2186vni TOOO~TOU~;. 1s. 16.
Either I)* with emphasis 'so mnny and no more ' ; or better 2)
~i:h refersnce to the previous words chi 6; rouo6rqv r$u ioxb Gurf
l~iitrruu piu Knl &As Kn'r uvpXtrGvov Kpflrro, roG 6i aXtj8ous qrm, ( SO
niany as would not make him dangerous.'Yearly the whole of this chapter is a series of dnopiai; as in C. 18.
13, Aristotle states, without clearly distinguishing, tliein.Yet the rrrparvyris dth, who in time of peace is deprived of 18. I.
functions, and on the battle-field has arbitrary power, is not really
the same with 6 Karh vdpov pod&.
Vf{l> '07&vru 82 KaTci Tl $pOS (SC. rqs 6lOlK~UfOE) ZXanov (SC. 7:s 18. I.
'khL+"").
' iyith a somewhat more limited poncr than at Epidamnus.'
fiOKfi SC rioru. 18. 2.
Eiher the construction may be an anacoluthon, or hi after hrl
nla! mark the apodosis.
GLdTfp 0682~ p&AxXou I;I)xciu $ ZpXruOai dixarov.'a; rb dvh pips=Kn.i rb civh pipes Zpxcrv Aoairos 8:~otov.Kai ri, dva &pos roivuv 18. 3.
'un'hL'C. TOGTO 6' @q Vdpp.
Aristotle, taking the view of an opponent of the mp@auiX~~n,