'94 A RIS TO TLE 'S POL (TICS.
- Ij. KoXo@iroc Kd h'OTlf;f,
That the Colophonians and Notians were torn by dissensiong
may be gathered from Thucydides iii. 34.
- pihhov 6qpor1mi ni riv ncrpilri? oiKo;vrts rirv rA &TU.
The great power of the democracy at Athens dated from the
battle of Salamis; and as the sailors were the lowest class cif
citizens, naturally the Piraeus was its head-qnarters. Liberty WJ~
saved by the fleet in the days of the Four Hundred; and nhen
driven out of Athens by the thirty took refuge at the Piraeus, frum
v hich it returned victorious.
- pihhov 6qpor1mi ni riv ncrpilri? oiKo;vrts rirv rA &TU.
- I. yivovruc plv 017" ai crrriucls oi mpi pc~ptv dhX' C'K plKptv.
Do not wars or revolutions alwys or almost aln.ays arise from
a combination of large public and political causes with small
personal and private reasons? Some spark sets fire to materials
previously prepared. If Herodotus overestimates the personal ant1
private causes of pat events, does not Thucydides undercstima!.c
them, esl~laining everything on great principles and ignoring tlir
trifles of politics to which Aristotle here directs attention? 111~
course of ancient or of modern history taken as a whole appears
to be the onward movement of some majestic though unseen powr;
when regarded in detail, it seems to depend on a series of accidrni>.
The Greek was a lover of anecdotes ; and for him this gossip about
trifles had a far greater interest than the reflections of Thucydidi..
upon the course of liuman events. (See Introduction, vol. i. p. scii.) - I. pcr&Xs yAp tj aohrrrla K.T.~.
The same story is told vith additions and embellishments bj
Plutarch ' Praecepta gerendae reipublicae ' p. 82: C.
- o"8cv ?rpouAhopBJvovrts so& iv r+ mXtrc6parc SmrTauiauav rrtivrar.
Here as infra c. 6. $ 8 the word 8tcurauiuuw may be causal and
active, ' they took the members of the government to their respectlye
sides and so split all the people into factions.' (Cp. KQTIIUTaUtdc@-
Bar v. 6. 6 14). Or as in the English text (taking Riaumnd~,
like maurd&, as a neuter) 'they then drew all the members of the
ruling class into their quarrel and made a revolution.'
- o"8cv ?rpouAhopBJvovrts so& iv r+ mXtrc6parc SmrTauiauav rrtivrar.