80 A RISTO TLE ’S POLITICS.
Scolium of Hybrias the Cretan (Bergk 27), TO+ (8c. r+ [+,\
Grcmdrar pvwfar K&Arlpai. cp. also Atlien. vi. 267, where the term
puqirrp is said by Hermon to be applied to ‘ well-born ’ serfs : fiyrut;c
oi&ai.
ra‘l ahair KfKq.&lS SfplOIkOUS.
With these criticisms we may compare Aristotle’s proposal (vii.- $ 8 and 10. $§ 13, 14) in the description of his own state, that
the husbandmen should be either slaves or foreign perioeci.
‘ Since they too have perioeci.’
Q. 4.Q. 5. Zuya ydp oidar pCpos du+ KU‘~ yMj.
The singular plpos is used by attraction with the singular dnjp.
For the general subject, cp. Laws vi. 780 E .ff. : ‘For in your
country, Cleinias and hIegillus, the common tables of men are
a heaven-born and admirable institution, but you are mistaken in
leaving the women unregulated by law. They have no similar
institution of public tables in the light of day, and just that part of
the human race which is by nature prone to secrecy and stealth
on account of their weakness-I mean the female sex-has been
left without regulation by the legislator, which is a great mistake.
And, in consequence of this neglect, many things have grown lax
among you, which might have been far better if they had been
only regulated by lam; for the neglect of regulations about women
may not only be regarded as a neglect of half the entire matter,
but in proportion as woman’s nature is inferior to that of men in
capacity of virtue, in that proportion is she more important than
the ttyo halves put together.
Cp. also Rhet. i. 5, 1361 a. IO, Onmw yip rh rard yuuairas 6aihn
Bump AaKf8aipOV~OiE, cr~c6bv rarh 76 +iov O;K ~;Baipouo~ui : and supra
i. 13. $ 16 ; also Eur. Andr. 595,
oC6’ du, ci /3oihoird ris,
o&#~pwv ylvoiro Esaprtari6wv K+?.Q. 8. irrl rijr dpxijs ah&.
Translated in the text, as by interpreters generally*, ‘in the days
of their greatness,’ i. e. in the fourth century B. c. after the taking
of Athens when Spartn had the hegemony of Hellas. But is not
the passage rather to be explained ‘ many things in their govern-
ment were ordered by women’? (Schlosser). For why should