POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

NOTES, BOOK rr. I I. 9.5

sards perished (Diod. xvi. 62, 63). This however is rather a civil
than a ‘foreign war.’ Others refer the words to the war in the
time OfAgis 11. (B. c. 330), or to the Cretan rising against Alexander.
refers to oi[crai 6th rhv rdnov, Quite lately [her isolation
did not Save her,] foreign mercenaries brought war into the island.’

vroor;

so~~h tcpr~& TPAS TO~S BXXOUS. 11. I.

(And in many respects their government is remarkable when

with those of other nations’ or ‘with the others of whom

I have been speaking.’ For the use of mpirr&, cp. c. 6. $ 6.

&Tar yhp ai ?roXtrciar rpck &+ais TC u;ucyyC lr& ricrt. 11. I.

Yet the differences are far more striking than the resemblances,

which seem to be only ‘ the common tables,’ the analogous office

of kings at Sparta and Carthage, and the council of Elders.

The real similarity to one another of any of these institutions

may be doubted (see note on 5 3 infra) : while the entire difference

in spirit is not noticed by hristotle. The Semitic trading aristocracy

has little in common with the Hellenic military aristocracy; the

prosperity of Carthage with the poverty and backwardness of Crete.

But in the beginnings of reflection mankind saw resemblances

more readily than differences. Hence they were led to identify

religions, philosophies, political institutions which were really unlike

though they bore the impress of a common human nature. ,

uqpfiov 6; Tohirclas cruvserayplvq~. 11. 2.

‘ And the proof that they were an organized state ’ or ‘ that they

had a regular constitution.’ The insertion of c: before ourrrray-

II+S (Schneider) is unnecessary. Cp. supra ii. 9. 5 22.

rbv &ov Zxouuav agrees with some word such as ndhrv understood 11. 2.

from lroXmL)ar=‘ the city with its democracy.‘

‘0 change Zxouuav into E‘dvra (Bernays) or E‘mkw (Spengel).

There is no need

he mdurv yryfvjoda~, 11. 2.

For the inconsistency of these words with another statement of

Aristotle (v. 12. 5 12) that ‘the Carthaginians changed from a

into an aristocracy,’ which is also irreconcileable with the

further statement in v. 12. 14, that they never had a revolution,

see note in loco.