POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

NOTES, BOOK I. 13. 41

++,xo~f~ &rrh&r xpju6ac pdvov' vou6tqrios yhp piAO\xov ro3s 8o;Xovr

i robs xaisas.

These words may mean: either I)* '~ho do not allow us to

converse with slaves,' or 2) 'who do not allow to slaves the gift of

reason.' In either case there is a reference to Plato, Laws, vi.

777, 778.

mpi 62 civ8pirS Ka'l YVaatKdS Kd riKVUV Kd TQTpdS, 7:s Tf Tfpl r"KllUr0V 13. 15.

n&iGu dptnjs, Kai 7:s rpbs u@(is nLroiis bprXias, ri rb KaXOs mi pj xaXtp

{mi, Kai Xi)s 6ci rA p& €C 8LhKCLV Tb 62 KaK& @€iyfCv, iv rois Irfp'l r&

I;oitrciss dvayrdov I?;Eh&iv.

This is one of the many promises in the Politics which are

3, a passage which is sometimes quoted

But the reference is only to the office of

unfulfilled. Cp. iv. 15.
in this connexion.
aadovdpos and pValKOVdpOS.