POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

I 68 A RIS TO TL E 'S POL /TICS.

Our' rtvayraTov :puna d&dar Tau'qv qv ndhrv r'miv ;E fv +,,,cy

+u'oec riv uburaurv cLar rijs no%sos.

' So that a city having [like and equal] citizens, who in our yielv

are the natural components of it, xdl of necessity be best ati.

ministered.' raLqv, sc. riv CUOV ai dpoiov... BV K.T.X.

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    9. nohhh ~~UOLULV Zpiura.
       ' Many things are best to those who are in the mean; ' or as ,,e
       might say in modern phraseology, 'The middle class have many
       advantages.' Cp. Eur. Suppl. 238-243: :-
       rpfis y&p nohrriv ptpiSfs*
       dv~$J~Xtk re ~XEL~VW r' tpGu' cid
       oi 8 O~K ?xovrcs Kai mravi[ovrfs @Lou,
    
    
    
    

oi pa~ o"h3tor

Btrvoi, v+OvTfs T4 +edvy a~E;ov

tk 706s ixOVraS KlVTp' d$Jl&SLV KaK6,

yXbuuars noqpiv npourariv $JqXo;ptvor*

zpr& 61 porpiv 4 'v p&ry UCqtL WdXfLS,

KO'UpOV $JVhdUUOVU' 8VTlV' dV Td& TdXlS.

(Quoted by Oncken, ii. 225, note I.)

11. I 5. Bolov re yip 4v rohw (S$& 6' C'K njs noi$ums).
    The passage referred to may be that quoted by Plutarch v.
    Solonis, c. 3,
    XOXX~'~

rjr rtptrjs rbv nXo.jrov,

nhou7cc~L KaKoi, riyneoi ~i V~V~VT~L,

AX' ip~k atrois 06 Graptr+lptea

In classing Solon with the middle rank Aristotle appears to be

thinking only of the tradition of his poverty and of the moderation

inculcated in his poems. He has ignored or forgotten the tradi-

tion of his descent from Codrus.

11. 15.^06 yhp iv Baurhcis.
    The feebleness of the argument is striking ; because LycurgW
    rvho was the guardian and is said also to have been the uncle of
    the king, was not a king, he is here assumed to be of the middle
    class I Cp. Piut. Cleom. 10, perhaps following this passage, viv 8;

dpipxov, i8ciqs ai BaurXrbcrv intxftpiv iv Tois z+x~LS npo+etv tis dyopdv'

is dv(iY~?p ;xfw mryyahpova T;)Y AVKOVP~OV, 8s ocrc &urXrh GV, &'

JUT€ Gtinavra rbvJaorXia XapiXaov ini popbv KaraQluyeiv. Yet ~~utarch