74 ARlSTOTLE’S POLITICS.
magnificent city of Rhodes. The scholiast on Knights 327 who
supposes the Hippodamus of Aristophanes to be the person here
mentioned, supposes him also to have designed the Piraeus at the
time of the Persian LYar (~urh ~h M+LK&); but he had probably no
special means of information and only ‘combined’ the two facts
that Hippodamus was the architect of the Piraeus and that The-
mistocles was the original author of the proposal to improve the
harbour. Hippodamus is also called ‘the Thurian’ in Hesychius.
The city of Thurii was founded in 445 B.C. and Rhodes was built
in 406 B.C. If therefore Hippodamus was a Thurian and also the
builder of Rhodes he must have designed not the original works
of the Piraeus, but the improvements made at a later date, such as
vas the middle \Tail in the age of Pericles, B.C. 444. This latter
date is more in accordance with the half Sophist, half Pythagorean
character which is attributed to Hippodamus. It is also more in
accordance with the words of Aristotle in yii. 11. $ 6, 4 62 ri)v i6iov
oi+cou 6tdcais {8iw piv uopiccrai... hu cv”ropos $ Ka‘l Karh rbv vchrcpov
Ka‘r rb ‘Inno8apcrov rpdnou, where it is implied that the Hippodamean
plan of arranging cities in straight streets was comparatively recent.
Cp. for the whole subject C. F. Hermann de Hippodamo hIilesio.I* Ka‘l KdUF(e IrOXlJTfXfi. &l F2 ;U&TOS f6TC)rOiS K.T.A,
There is no reason for scspecting corruption. The eccentricity
of Hippcdamus consisted in combining expensiveness and sim-
plicity: iuB{ros is dependent on some such word as Xpiuci to be
supplied from ~d~pp.
- 6tipci 6’ cis rpia pip? rrju XLpav, rrjv piv kp&, riu 61 Gqpouiav, riv 6’
The division of the land proposed in the Seventh Book (c. 10.i8iav.Q I I) is nearly similar to that of Hippodamus.
- Bixaunjpiou iv rb zip~ov.
Plato in the Laws also establishes an appeal, vi. 767 C. ‘The
final judgment shall rest with that court, which has been esta-
blished for those who are unable to get rid of their suits either
in the courts of the neighbours or of the tribes.‘
- Bixaunjpiou iv rb zip~ov.