BOOK IV.
- 2-6. The statesman has four problems to consider,
I) What is the best or ideal state?
2) What state is best suited to a particular people?
- How any given state, even though inferior to \That it migb:
4) IVhat is the best state for average men?
I) is the best possible; 2) the best relatively to circumstances;
3) neither the best possible nor the best under the circumstances,
but any constitution in which men are willing to acquiesce, even
though ill-provided and ill-administered-such are to be found iii
the world and must therefore enter into the considerati0.n of tlit
statesman ; 4) the best for mankind in general.be, may be created or preserved?
- rnirqv tmi r+v Ghvapiv.
The 1ISS. vary betneen irr and dud : iric has rather the greatel
NSS. authority, but la'r is required for the construction, and til?
recurrence' of in which vas the first word of the sentence at tile
end of it is unpleasing.
- rnirqv tmi r+v Ghvapiv.
- 6,yop&qrdv re cluai Kai ri)v 6vayrtalwv.
Explained in the text, with Susemihl, *( not possessing the Out-
nard means necessary for the best state,' but the words ' for
best state,' are not found in the Greek, Better not possessing the
common necessaries or simple requisites of life,' a hard but not
impossible condition, e.g. in a remote colony. Cp. c. 11. $ 211
soXXdmr ogqs WX~S nohrrciar niprrwrCpar iviors Kw~;vcr vur++~v
kipw pMhov cA5 aohrrrinv, I\ hich is similar but not the same [\ith
this passage. For dxop<yrlrou, cp. Kfxopyflpivy in 5 I, and 8wi~jV
sohh<r ,yop?yiar in $ 6.
- 6,yop&qrdv re cluai Kai ri)v 6vayrtalwv.