POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

166 ARISTOlLE '5 POLITICS.

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   9. TOJS piv ybp yCpowns aipoirurar, 7;)s s' i$opcias pcr;Xotmv.
      1.e. 'The people choose the elders, but are not eligible them.
      Whether they eleclyrj
      We are only told that ille
   
   
   
   

pelves ; and they share in the Ephoralty.'

the Ephors is nowhere expressly said.

mode of election was extremely childish (ii. 9. 9 23).

10. I. inrr6r) Kai m;r?u ri6tpsv ~iv mhirciHv TL pL;pos.
    Tyranny is and is not 2 form of polity, in the sense in which tilc
    word ' polity' is used by hristotle. Cp. c. 8. 9 2, rehcwraiov 6; repi
    rwpavuL6os caoydv iori 7rorjaau8oi puciuu 8th r6 vacriu +ima raCrqv cLl
    nohLrdau, tjpiv 6; r$v p;eoGov &ai arp; Irohircias.


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    1. ncpi piv oh fiacrrXsl'as Gtopiuaptv c'v Tois apdroks Xdyors, iu oL ncpi njc
    
    
    
    

Either ' royalty * commonly so called,' or ' the most truly called

pdXtma Xeyo~hvqs @aorhsLs imio6pt8a rljv UK~+U.

royalty,' which would seem to be the ro,uPnnLhci'n. Cp. iii. c. 16.

10. I. riva Kai IrlBcu &i Kir8tarC1vuh, xai nzs.
    Two slightly different senses are here combined in 6ti, I) nht
    we ought to establish,' and z), incorrectly, ' how or by what rne311,
    we may or must e-tablish it.'


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    2. rupavut'6os 6' ~iSq 860 uiv GrcAopw Zv o?s nrpi pauihtiae 2ncuKorio+cv.
       Sc. iii. 14. $5 6-10. The two forms of tyranny there mentionetl
       are the hereditary monarchy of barbarians, and the Aesyrnnetia of
       ancient Hellas. The barbarian monarchs are here called elected
       sovereigns, though before spoken of as hereditary (iii. 14. $ 6), and
       contrasted with the elected Aesymnetes of ancient Eellas: wih
       whom they are here compared.
    
    
    
    


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    2. (sib rb r$v %iifaprv haXhdrrw AWE a;rtv Kai npbs T~V PauiXcinv.
       Not 'because their powers in a manner change into one another,
       and pass into royalty ; ' for the iyords ' change into one another'
       would not be a reason why they should be spoken of in conneston
       with royalty, but ' because the power of either of these forms Of
       tyranny easily passes likewise into royalty ;' likewise i. e. besides
       being forms of tyranny. For the use of ~V~~~~TTELV, cp. vi. 1. $ 3.
       and i. 6. 3.
    
    
    
    


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    4. souai;ra 6th rBr eipqpdvag alrias,
       ti,,vp;uas, sc. in the previous sentences. 'There is more than