192 A RISTO TL E'S PoLrTIcs.
divided into rich and poor.'
reading is in favour of cindppov.
The argument from the more difficult
- ir '.p+
A later name of Hestiaea in Euboea, or rather (Strabo x. p. 446)
of an Athenian city established in the time of Pericles, on the Same
site, to maintain control over Euboea. After the fall of Athens ir
passed into the hands of Sparta and received an oligarchical con-
stitution, reverting to Athens in the year 377. Probably at this
time KaTfhI& 4 dhyapxb. For another reference to Hestiaea, nhich
never entirely lost its old name (Pausan. vii. p. 592), see c. 4. 5 4.
- IO. r~xos 8 o;ecvh ~pxov.
o;efvbs is taken in the text as the genitive of value. If this nay
of explaining the word is rejected as unidiomatic, or rather, not
likely to be employed when according to the more familiar idiom
0;BdS would be governed by ipxov, we may adopt the emendation
of Bekker's 2nd Edition, cir' oiiBcvds,
- I I. ok~v T~w(?v~o~s 'Axmoi UVV$K~U~V PLpaprv, &a lihciovs oi 'Axatoi ytvd-
The foundation of Sybaris (B. c. 720) is recorded in Strabo vi.
p. 263, but nothing is said of the joint occupation of the place by
the Troezenians: nor of the curse, The fall of Sybaris is attri-
buted to a very different cause in a gossiping story told by
Athenaeus xii. p. 520, of a Sybarite having beaten his slave at the
altar to which he fled for refuge. A rather fabulous account of the
war between Sybaris and Croton, in which Milo the athlete figures
as a sort of Heracles, is given by Diod. Sic. xii. 9,
prvor l&@aXov 70th Tpor{?vious' 86cv rb dyos uvv&3p sois Eu/3apiraer.
- I 2. ai lv Boupiocs Eu&isac sqis uvvoimjuauiv.
Sc. iurauiauav or some similar word gathered from the preceding
sentence. For a more detailed though not very trustworthy nar-
rative of the event referred to, see Diod. Sic. xi. 90 j xii. 10, 11.
Thurii being founded on the site of Sybaris, the Sybarites who
joined in the colony naturally looked upon the country as their 0%'".
ZayxXaioc Bi EapiOVs ho8r&cvoc i&reuov uaf ah;.
This, which is one of the blackest stories in Greek histoV* is
narrated at length by Herodotus vi. 23. The Zancleans had
- I 2.
