NOTES, BOOK 17. I. 187
~~~av, in his 2nd Edition (see note on Text) accords with his
correction of the text in^5 a, dpoXoyo6vzov SA Bixaiou rt~r Ti Km'
dwXoy;av Zrov instead of sal +b KUS' dvdoyiav.
r,+cia yhp ral dpri iv AXiyois, ratra 6' iv nXciouiv.
The antecedent of Sacra is wealth and poverty, latent in Bijpor
The conj. r&vavda, adopted by Bekker following2nd &ynp~i~.
Lambinus in his 2nd Edition, is unnecessary.
;nopot ai nohXoi noXhaXoii 1. 14.
'But there are in many places a large class of poor.' Some
hiss. read ci%opoi, some omit aoXXoi, and it has been contended
by Stahr that Copoi 62 Kai chopoc lroXXaXoi is the true reading. But
the text, which is the reading of several Greek RES. and is con-
firmed by Moerbeke, is better.
SA 62 drrXfs stiq KaO' irtaripav TcnixOa8 r$v icrdrqra @a;Xov.
' Either equality of number or equality of proportion, if the only
principle of a state, is vicious': cp. infra c. 9. 5 13 ; iv. 13. 5 6;\I. 5. g 2.
dnb TOG rrpdsou Kal TOC Iv bpx$ tjpaprqpivou.
jpaprqp&ou is to be taken with SO; nphrow as well as with TO;- 15,
;v lipx;.i ~pbs S$U AAtyapXiav.
dktyapxt'a is here used for the oligarchical party, TO~S dXLyowr,
Parallel to 8+0s in the previous clause, although in the preceding
sentence the same word means a form of government-an example
of Aristotle's transitional and uncertain use of language.ah$ 62 apds abrdv, 0" ri Kai dttov tirtiv, OCK t'yylyvtrai S+ 8{py UThUlS. 1. 16.
This reflection is probably true of Greek democracies, but can
hardly be justified by modern experience either of the Italian
Republics, which swarmed with factions and conspiracies, or of
France in the first French revolution, or of England under the
Commonwealth, or of Switzerland in the war of the Sonderbund,
or of N. America in the war of North and South, or of the S.
\ ' American Republics. Differences of character, climate, religion,
affect democracies as well as other forms of government.