NOTES, BOOh? 11. IO. 91
4 G+,~ br1 r'Kf;efu ixi,xvecu. 10. 5.
These svords may be compared with the passage in Rook vii. 10.
p 2. ipXa;a 6' hKrv fh Kai rib Uucruir~ov 4 r&$s, rh plu lrfpi Kpjrqv
yr,+rra rfp'r r+u M~U @auiXciau, rh 61 scp'r TIIU 'IraXirrv mXh+ saXatd-
ifpa &TW. In both passages Aristotle says that the common
nieals: came from Crete to Sparta.0i ,+;u yhp &#mpoi n)u ah+ ?xouui 6;uapiu rois iv ri ~p$rg rraXovpL;vois 10. 6.
The office of the Cosmi is identified by Aristotle with that of the
~phors. nut the resemblance between them is very slight. The
fact that at Sparta there were kings, while in Crete the kingly
1,o\wr, if it ever existed at all, had long been abolished, makes an
essential difference. The Ephors were democratic, the Cosmi
nere oligarchical officers. And although both the Ephors and the
Cosmi were an executive body, yet the Ephors, unlike the Cosmi,
never acquired the military command, which was retained by the
, Spartan kings. Aristotle observes that the Cosmi were chosen
: nut of certain families, the Ephors out of all the Spartans, a circum-
stance to which he ascribes the popularity of the latter institution.
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'0;s KaAoiuiu oE Kpi~rs powX{u.
Yet we are told that the term powh+ \vas generally used to signify
'the council in a democracy.' Cp. iv. 15. § 11 and vi. 8. 8 17,
also v. 1. Q IO, [at Epidamnus] dvri r&u r#wXrip~ou @owX+u isoiqucv.
In the Cretan use of the term @auk$ there may be a survival of the
I-Iomeric meaning of the word.
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BatrLXrla 8; lrpo'rcpov pdu 4..
Probably an inference from the legendary fame of Rlinos. No
oh king of Crete is mentioned.
Dosiades, quoted by Ath. iv. c. 22. p. 143, gives the following
account of the Cretan Syssitia : ' The Lyctians collect the materials
for their common meals in the following manner: Every one
brings a tenth of the produce of the soil into the guild (;Tar&) to
Hhich he belongs, and to this [are added] the revenues of the city,
which the municipal authorities distribute to the several house-
holds. Further, each of the slaves contributes a poll-tax of an