POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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h’OTES, BOOK V. 8. 209
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Aristocracies are in fact more oligarchical than aristocratical,
and ‘ the few ’ are always grasping at wealth. Cp. infra, c. 8. $ 16.

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The mother of Dionysius the younger was Doris a Locrian
,$oman, and when expelled from Syracuse he was received by the
citizens of Locri in a most friendly manner, but he afterwards availed
}iinisclf of their good will to impose a garrison on the town. They
ultimately drove out his garrison [Diodorus xiv. 44, Justin sxi. z
2nd 31.

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But why not? Aristotle seems to mean that no well-governed
city would have allowed one of its citizens to marry into the family
of a tyrant or would have entered into relation with him in
consequence: or perhaps that in a democracy or well ordered
xistocracy the marriage of a single citizen could not have become
‘I great political event.

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We may paraphrase this rather singular expression, In the days
hen the Greek world was divided between the Athenians and
Lairdaemonians.’

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For the expression of a similar spirit acting in a wider field and
glv1ng a mythological origin to the traditional policy of Rome, cp.
Tat. Ann. xi. 24 : Quid aliud exitio Lacedaemoniis et Athenien-
YCJL. 11. P

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