XOTES, BOOh’ lV, 3. ‘53
crt npbs rais rtnrh nhoirov Gia+opais 2miv 4 piv y&os 4 ai war’ 3. 4.
+fTjv, tZ rt Sj ro~oiirou Kfpov cipqrat rolcws cfunc p(pos iv rois nrpi
dp,G70*pariav.
The parts of the state are spoken of in vii. 8. Q 7. The opening
of book vii. itself also professes to speak of aristocracy,
But the \Triter goes on to treat rather of the i?~oBIcr~is or material
conditions of the best state: than of the best state itself. These
rsftrences are vague ; if they were really the passages here cited, we
sliould have to suppose that the seventh book preceded the fourth.
But they are not precise enough to be adduced as an argument in
farour of the changed order.KQ~ yirp raci ci’8ct &a+& rh pipq u+ijv airrijv. 3. 5.
‘As the parts of states differ from one another (u+& adrrju), so
must states differ from one another.’ Compare the curious com-
parison infra c. 4. $8 8, 9.d[rcia plv yhp 4 riiv +,yUiv &:LE id, ra6rqv Si Btdpovrat rdvrrs ij 3. 5.
xarh rjv G;va,uiu rGv pfrcxdvrou 4 Kard TL; airrijv Iu6qra KOLY~~, Xiyo
6’ OTOU r6v bdpwv 3 r6v ~tdpwv, ij KOW+ TW‘ bp+o;v.
The last words, KOW+ TLV’ ++oiv, which are obscure and do not
coliere very well with 8;uaptu, are bracketed by Bekker in his 2nd
edition. But there is no reason for doubting their genuinenes.
histotie means to say that governments subsist according to the
poirers of those who share in them; or according to equality,
nhether that equality be an equality of the rich among themselves,
or of the poor among themselves, or an equality of proportion
u.hich embraces both rich and poor : cp. infra c. 4. Q 2. The words
ri)v di~dp~ 4 TGY ~Cdpov may be an explanation of warh rjv
~~qrv rGv ptrtXdmuu, which comes in out of place, and 4 womjv rtu’
%oiv, as in the English text, may be an explanation of bdrqra
iudrqra Kotv+, 6 Nore power may be given to the
I)”r as being the more numerous class, or to the rich as being
the more wealthy; or paver may be given upon some principle Of
which includes both; ’ as e. g. in a constitutional
W’ernment. In this nay of explaining the passage the difficulty
K0lv;v.
*nrd TW’