NOTES, BOOZ; rv-. 9. 16;
of the poor and the wealth of the rich; cXtu8cpias answering to
dsdpov as nXo;Tou to chdpov.
As in some other summaries of Aristotle the first division seems @, 1-4.
to be a general description of those which follow. (Cp. supra note
on C. 4. § 24.) We cannot distinguish between I and 3, unless in
oIle of them we suppose Aristotle to have in his mind a syncretism
oft\vo general principles of government (see $ 6), in the other an
eclectic union of elements taken from different governments.&3OXOV. 0. I.
Something cut in two and capable of being put together, so that
the parts fitted into one another; a die or coin or ring thus divided,
ahich friends used as a token when desirous of renewing hospitality
on behalf of themselves or others, and which was also used in
buying or selling. See Schol. on Eur. RIed. 613, oi im~c~oip*rvor,
riurp6yahou Karar&uourcs, BLrspou p2u aid Karcixou plpos, Bkrcpou 62
xorshipovou 70;s bm&[api'uorr' &a c1 6;or s&u a6roh 4 TOAS tdmv
., &n&o;u.Bni np& &XXjXous, dnayo'pcvor rA fprcru durpay&w, dvcvcobo
riju [wiau: and cp. Plat. Symp. 191 D, du6pOxou @p'poXov Brc. r?rp~p;uos.. ;.$ C(V& 660.
i ybp dpcpdrcpa Xqnr;ov &v C(drcpar uopo0croiuru K.T.X. 0. 2.
'For either they must take the legislation of both.' These
words are resumed in tL p;v 01% O~TOS roc cr~~6uucrp0i rpdlros and
followed by Rcpos 8; instead of repeating f.
The first case is a union of extremes, the second a mean taken
between them ; the third seems to be only another example of the
first.f'ii$nivcrai y&p irtircpov c'u ah3 riv &p~,
From the democratical aspect a polity or timocracy has the
Weatance of an oligarchy or aristocracy; from the oligarchical
of a democracy. Aristotle cites as an example of this many-
sidedness the constitution of Lacedaemon, which he himself else-
IYhere (c. 7. $ 4) calls an aristocracy, but which in this passage he
acknowledges to have many features both of a democracy and of
an oligarchy. Cp. Nic. Eth. ii. 7. $ 8, ;dm+mu ol hpor 74s plrv
xipas.0, 6.3