302 ARZSTOTLE'S POLZTZCS.
having no experience of politics cannot teach them (cp. Plat.
Tim. 1gD).
But a fatal objection to this way of interpreting the passage is
the word p&m, which elsewhere in this chapter, and even in the
next sentence, means ' early education,' not ' mature philosophical
speculation.'
- Compare Plat. Rep. ii. 411. In the Laws vii. 810 he limits
the time allowed for the study of music to three years.
- Compare Plat. Rep. ii. 411. In the Laws vii. 810 he limits
- IO. 74 hdyy
'Speech,' as in bk. i. 2. 4 IO.
The singular outburst of intellectual life at Athens, which a-e
may well believe to have arisen after the Persian War, belongs
to a period of Greek history known to us only from the very
short summary of Athenian history contained in a few pages
of Thucyddcs. It was the age of Findar and Simonides and
Phrpichus and Aeschylus, of Heraclitus and Parmenides, of
Protagoras and Gorgias. - II.
- I 2. 'EK~IRuT~~I~.
=1 very ancient comic poet who flourished in the gencration
before Aristophanes. - 15, &fi 6i r&v r€ 6py<;uwv K.1.h.
This, like many other sentences beginning with &I, is an
miacoluthon, of which the real apodosis is to be found in the
wortis Blhrp 06 rtju iAfve;pov KpLvoprv rr'yac riu ipyadau cihhci &TI-
KW7;jJav. - I.^4 rphov 6cl rwh 2rcpow.
Three alternatives are given : I) Shall we use all the harmonies
and rhythms in education? 2) Shall ve make the same dis-
tinctions about them in education which are made in other uses
of them? Or 3) Shall we make some other distinction?
rpirov is certainly not symmetrical
because it introduces not a third case but a subdivision of the
second case. Yet other divisions in hristotle are unsymmetrical
(cp. supra c. 3. Q I and vii. 11. $5 1-1).
~pirou Rri has been suspected.