6 ARISTOTLE'S POLITlCS.
Cp. Cicero de Officiis, i. 17, 'Sam cum sit hoc natura
commune animantium, ut habeant lubidinem procreandi, prima
societas in ipso conjugio est: proxima in liberis: deinde
una domus, communia omnia. Id autem est principium urbis
et quasi seminarium reipublicae. Sequuntur fratrum conjunc-
tiones, post consobrinorum sobrinorumque ; qui cum una domo
jam capi non possunt, in alias domos tanquam in colonias exeunt.
Sequuntur connubia et affinitates, ex quibus etiam plures pro-
pinqui. Quae propagatio et soboles origo est rerum publicarum.'
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The argument is as follows: The rise of the village from the
family explains also the existence of monarchy in ancient Hellas.
For in the family the eldest rules. This rule of the eldest in the
family is continued into the village, and from that passes into the
state. In support of his opinion Aristotle quotes what Homer
says of the Cyclopes (a passage also quoted by Plato, Laws 680,
in a similar connexion), and he further illustrates it by men's ideas
about the Gods, to whom they attribute a regal or patriarchal form
of government, such as their own had been in primitive times.
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Aristotle is here speaking of one kind of monarchy, which may
be called the patriarchal. In iii. 14. 8 12, he attributes the rise of
monarchy to the benefits conferred on the inhabitants of a country
in peace or war by distinguished individuals, whereas in this
passage he assigns to it a patriarchal origin. Both accounts
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