- i&rs o;pcraL
The MSS. give ciptmi, corrected by Bekker from a marginal note
But the words &IS
It is possible that ;&is may be the true
in a copy of the Aldine edition into alpfro[.
oiprrd are unmeaning.
reading and +crd the gloss or vice versfi. See note on text.
- IO. d+rivar riu TEKVOTTOII'RV,
Another inaccurate criticism. For Plato expressly provides that
the overplus of population should be sent to colonies (Laws v. 740).
- I I. 6ri 6; roir' 03x 6por'os &~ptg& Zxciv ncpl rhs r6Xs1s 7626 tal vtv.
'But this matter ought not to be regulated with the same strict-
ness then and now,' i.e. it ought to be regulated with greater
strictness in the imaginary state of the Laws than in existing states.
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- napd[uyas.
' For whom there is no place at the banquet of life.'--RIalthus,
roho 62 rrBLvar rb rrhj%os cino5h;novra rphs rds rC,yas, hv uuppaiug
rrXruriv TLY~E rtu yavuqBlurov, ~al npls r$v rGv 8XXov drsKuiau.
rtu a'XXov, the sterility of others,' i.e. of others than those who
have children, implied in the word yrvq%Cvrwu,--l the death of some
of the children and the sterility of some of the married couples.'
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- 4r1'8ou piv oh d KopiuBror, Gv vopo%irqs riv dpxaiordrov, TOAS OLOUP
rb rijeoE riiv no~rrtu, Kal si sb npirou rois 5
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Iuous and dviuous are here used in slightly different senses, ZUOUS
referring to the numbers of the families, duhous to the size of the
lot. ' He thought that the number of the families should be the
same, even although the original size of the lot was different,' That
is to say he accepted the existing distribution of property among
families, however disproportioned, and did not allow it to be
afterwards altered.
Of Pheidon the Corinthian nothing is known: he has been
identified with Pheidon the tyrant of Argos on the ground that
Corinth lay in the Argive dominions (Muller, Dorians i. 7. 15).
But no evidence is adduced of this assertion. The word KO,.X'V%~OS
may have been a slip : (cp. for a similar or worse error, infra c. 11.
~uovr +<a7 aciv Graplvcrv
~Xtjpov~ civiuovs 2x0~ rrdures *ad p;yAx.
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