POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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A'OTES, BOOK V. 3. '93
invited Hippocrates tyrant of Gela to assist them apinst Anaxilaus
Lyrant of Rhegium, but were betrayed by him and delivered over
ta the Saniians.


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.¬her instance of the danger of incorporating foreigners in a
State. The foreigners in this case were the mercenaries of Hiero
and Gelo. After the expulsion of Thrasybulus they were allowed
10 remain in the city, but deprived of political privileges. The
nnrrative of their revolt, of their seizure of Acradina and Ortygia,
and of the troubles which folloaed the attempt to drive them
out in the ill-fated island of Sicily, is to be found in Diod.
si. 72 ff.

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ai 'Ap#wroXirar Bc&ip'cuor XaXui6;ov ciaoimus i&'nruov 6xd ro6rov oi 3. I 3.
rktilrroc ah;,.
aCr& is to be taken with oi rkriuror, which is in partitive appo-
sition with 'A~~~LTOX~TSL. The event referred to cannot be shown
to have any connexion with the revolt of Amphipolis during the
Peloponnesian War (Thuc. iv. 105). Nor do we know of any
other event which corresponds with the account given either here
or in c. 6. Q 8 where the revolution is spoken of ' as an insurrection
against an oligarchy, made by the aid of Chalcidians' who had
settled in the place. But an oligarchy could not have existed
under the control of Athens; nor would a democracy be likely to
have joined the Peloponnesian confederacy.

UT~ULL~OUUL 6' iv p2v rais 6XryapXiars K.T.X. 3.14.
' There are other differences besides those of race which divide
c&a. There may be two cities in one (c. 12. g 15), both in
oligarchies and democracies.' This general reflection is intro-
duced awkwardly amid the special causes of revolutions in states.
Iht a similar confusion of general and particular occurs in several
other passages; e. g. iv. 4. Q 22 K.








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