POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

52 ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS.

necessarily, to alter the reading. The change made by him of re

into yc and of mi into Karh impairs the parallelism of KT;)ucis and

Xpiufts (rdr ye mjucrs KUIV~S c?var,BEhrtov KOT~ rhs xpjucis). The three

cases are : 1) the soil divided, produce common : 2) soil common,

produce divided : 3) soil and produce alike common.

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5. 2, kp hra rot6 ruiu L8v5v.
   Z6q as in i. 2. $ 6, a vague expression for @+sopor and generally
   opposed to ro‘hcis or “EXXvuCs: also any loosely organised people,
   ii. 2. $ 3 ; applied to the more general divisions of Hellas, vii. 7. $4.
   The cases of Sparta, infra § 7, and of Tarentum, vi. 5. J IO: are not

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in point, even if their practice could be regarded as communism. i“

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   3. iriprV p& Oh dVrOV T6V yfW~O6VrOU dhh hV f6) Tpd7rOS Kd 68WU.
      If the land were cultivated by serfs there would be no disputes
      among the cultivators, for having no property, they would have
      nothing to quarrel about.
   
   
   
   


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   4. r6v wua~ro8jp0v Korvwvhi. uXc8bv yhp oi d.cbroi Bta+c$pcvoi K.T.~.
      Either* ‘ fellow-travellers’ or ‘ fellowsettlers in a foreign city.’
      Whether the KOlVWYL)(Il were formed for the purposes of business or
      only of companionship is not determined. With the words u~c8bv
   
   
   
   

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ybp K.7.A. SUpplY Trp0UKpO;OUUl.

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   5. Kd &TlKOU$?l8~V.. 8lfV;yKLIl. i i
      i
      f
   
   
   
   

A condensed expression put for 8v 82 YGU rprhov Zxci, Bia++r, KQ‘~ ’

irtroup@v (‘ when it has been improved ’), ob plKpbY BV Gdyyrtar.

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   6. ai plv yhp hy.t;hcrar Gqp&var rh 2yKhrjpara rppbs dXXtjXovr ob
      7rol~uovulY.
      Either I), ‘for the division of labour will give rise to no corn-
      plaints,’ i. e. will prevent complaints, &lnp;hCu being taken as the
      nominative to ob roi{uouuiv: or 2) regarding (as the words rpb~
      dAAjhous and the following clause @ou 8’ CTrrBhuouurv seem to
      indicate) ai $v &rncpihcrac as nom. absolute, or the construction of
      the sentence as changing, we may translate, ‘Every one having
      a distinct occupation, men will not complain of one another.’
   
   
   
   


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   6. at‘ Cipmiv BC.
      ‘ But where there is virtue there will be in practice community of
      goods among friends.’