POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

iVOTES, BOOK ZV. 4. '59

the expression has led to tlm changes in the text. I) hrpixsrv

jsusemihl) for which there is slight MS. authority, P', P'; and

>krelino's transl. 2) +xcw an emendation of Victorius adopted by

Coraes, Schneider, Stahr, and supposed to be confirmed by a

I,L,r"Iel passage in vi. 2. 0 g ; see note on English Text. 3) The

old Translation ' nihil magis existere egenis vel divitibus' seems

to fayour hipxtrv rois cindpors 4 rois fiindporr.

RqpoKpmiav &ai rahqv. 4. 23.

p;u otv €%os K.T.X. 4.24.

m(jrqv is slightly inaccurate=' the state in which this occurs.'

Five forms of democracy are reckoned : but the first of these is

really a description of democracy in general, not of any particular

form. The words in 0 24 GXXo 6i seem to have been introduced by

mi>take. The five foims are thus reduced to four, as in c. 6 the

fiir forms of oligarchy given in c. 5 appear as four.

Srrpov dSos GqpoKparias rb psripv &auras roir mXirar &or dw- 4. 24.

i'.;c;8vvur, +pv 68 rbv udpou. BTEPOV Sh EZSOS 8qpoKparlar rb s6ur

pirtivar rGv cipxOv, Ihv plvov noX[rt/s, +pw 6i rbv vdpov.

The words OIuor Gvunc~8uuor agree with rois dvum&hxs mrh rb

ybr, as the c'hv $ r;oXirt/s does with the OIUOC hv IXs6Bspoi Qui in the

recapitulation of the passage which follows (c. 6. 9 4). In both

cases all citizens are eligible and the law is supreme : but in the first

of the two the rights of citizenship have been scrutinized ; in the

second, all reputed freemen are admitted to them without enquiry.

The latter case may be illustrated by the state of Athenian citizen-

ship before the investigation made by Pericles; the former by the

stricter citizenship required after the change. The meaning of the

\\ord dvwrr68uwor is shown by the parallel passage (c. 6. 4 3, dvuasu-

ei~ors *arb rb Y&OS) to be, ' not proved to be disqualified by birth.'

"o~t/pos 62 noiau ~iyrr oiK riya8bv cLnr noXuKorpaviqv, mirrpov

It \vould be a poetical or historical anachronism to suppose that
Homer in the words cited intended one of the senses which
Aristotk seems to think possible. The collective action of states
as distinguished from that of individuals is the conception, not of a

4 4. 27.
"0" T~C;OUS tcrrv oi G~;PXOMEE &s &nuros, d6+ov.