POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

iVOTES, BOOK ZV. I I.

one kind of tyranny, because the tyrant may rule either with or

ni[hout law, and over voluntary or involuntary subjects.’

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;Iristotle now proceeds to speak of the best average constitution 11.

to \\hich he alluded in c. 1. 5.

rhv piuov &ayxnbv plov sfac p;hrrmov, TGS ~K~QTOLS ;vafXop&,s 11. 3.

The gen. paudrqros is a resumption of pluov, and depends on

Here, as in Nic. Eth. ii. 6. 8 7, the mean is admitted to be

TUXfb Psd~TOs.

pi^.

relative.

rak 6’ dp+drcpa @X&~pph ra;r mkriv. 11. 5.
+#&pa, sc. either I) *‘ their rogueries and their unwillingness
to perform public duties, whether military or civil,’ or 2) simply
‘their dislike both of civil and military duties.’ It is possible also
that T~GT~ dp+drcpa may refer to the pryaXondvqpoi and prKpondvqpoi,
in n.hich case the words &k. ,. ~Ipxouu~ are either inserted or mis-
placed.
The +;XapXor at Athens were the cavalry officers under the
Haupxor. See Liddell and Scott. The term is also sometimes
used to denote civil magistrates, as in v. 1. 8 11 to describe the
oligarchical rulers of Epidamnus. pouXapxa;v literally = ‘to be
a chief of the senate.’ The word very rarely occurs, and can
here only have a generalized meaning. William de Noerbeke,
apparently finding in some Greek MS. +lhRpXOh, translates by
an obvious mistake, ‘minime amant principes et volunt esse
principes.’ For the association of political inactivity with the idea
of crime, cp. Solon’s law forbidding neutrality in a sedition (Hut.
Solon ZO), r&v 8’ ZXX~~ v+ov %kOS pip prihiora Kai sapciaotos 6
K&~W ikkpOV &L iv UrriafL IqGsripas ppi80~ ydpfvov: and
Pericles in Thuc. ii. 40, pdvot y&p ~dv Tc p98& 7i)~8f perixowa O&
hdypova ah’ +psior vopilopfv.

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