48 A RZSTO TLE ’S POLITICS.
of the whole, and those of whom they speak being likewise each of
them a thousandth part.
A different view of this passage has been taken in the Text.
Nore stress is laid on the words rbv r3 4 rartis npdrroura : the parent
is supposed to appropriate the youth who is doing well, and to dis-
own the one who is doing badly: +i)s hiyci rbv rb 4 KOK& npdrrovra=
ipds hiyrr rdu r3 rrpcirrovra, OCK +As Xiyrr rbu Kart& nprirrovra. It must
be remembered that, according to Aristotle, the true children are
liable to be discovered by their likeness to their parents.
T&V &“v, as if Plato had made his state to consist of a thousand
citizens; cp. infra c. 6. $ 5. This is only an inference from Rep.
iv. 423 A, in which Plato says that the ideal state, even if con-
sisting of no more than a thousand soldiers, vould be invincible.
- 7.^6 pZv yhp uidu K.T.X.
6 In Plato’s state they are all mine ” : in ordinary states there are
many sorts of relationship, and the same person may be a father
or a brother or a cousin of some one or other; there are likewise
remoter degrees of affinity, and remoter still the tie of fellow wards-
man or fellow tribesman. Even a distant cousinship is preferable
to that shadow of a relationship which supersedes them all.’
- 6 6‘ civs$rdv, 4 Kai dXXqv rrvh uvyyivrrav.
The variety of human relations as ordinarily conceived is
contrasted with the monotony of Plato’s society in which the state
and the family are identified.
- Kpptirrou yap i8rov Bu+Au &r 4 TAU ~pdi~ov ro;rov vidv.
A resumption of ndrcpou oh Kprirrou; ‘Is not the present prac-
tice better I for it is better to have a cousin of pur own than to
have a son after Plato’s fashion.’
- $Qui riurr ,. rirv rhs 6s yijs scptd8ous Irpay,uartvop&w rtuaI TLUL rfu
bo A@hv KOLV~S rhs yvvakas, rh pivror yrvd,ucvu r&ua GratprTuBar Karb
rhs dpordqras.
Cp. Herod. iv. 180, r+ bu OZKJ rfv dv8pfu rb sarBiov, rokov nais
uopi[crar, who is speaking, however, not of Upper, but of Lower
Libya.
