XOTLS, BOOK Jzr. 13. * 35
T"irov rhu 7p;lrov danvr;lv. dxopoiur ydp TlVfS adrspov r+ vop08;rg w/Jo-
pcnlr;ov, @ou~~+d~y ri8wBai roiis dp80rdrou~ V&VS, ~pb~ ri) T~)V @?hrlduov
n,lp+;Pov 4 api,s T; riv xhciduow, &~v uup$aivy rb XcxBiv. rh 6' dp6b
h,,xr;ow z,,~~* Ti) 6' ioos rphs rh rijs xt;hcos uK~p+ipov Kai.\ristotle here raises the question whether the laws shall be
fllacted for tlie good of all or of a privileged class when several
(];1Ssej esist together in a state. He answers that tlie laws must
1,~ equal, and this equal right, or law, means the principle which
conduces to the good of the whole state.
I)* o'rav uuppaivg 72) XcX€iv refers immediately to 5 Io, which sug-
,-ests the co-existence of classes in a state, and to s 4, which
contains a more formal statement to the same effect.
2) Bernays alters the punctuation by enclosing &ropoCui ,. ,
nic~iuov in a parenthesis explanatory of rIjv drroplav. This gives
a sufficient sense; but a short clause at the end of a sentence
following a long parenthesis is not in the manner of Aristotle.
He also refers &av uupfhivg rb hsX8iv to the words ri, ahj8os &ai
P~XTLOW K.T.X., not when all the elements co-exist,' but ' when the
v hole peop!e is better and richer than the few.'8,; ,$s rrjv drropiav, [@VL KO; apoi3dXXouui rws, iv8l,\trai 13.1 I, I 2.,-p&q 7; KOLldV 71 TiV lTOhlr&V.&if pi uup@Xtp)u &ai rjv-r& n"Xhov dprjw lrlivrov pVS2 rjw 86vapiw 13, 13.
The virtue here spoken of seems to he the virtue of the kind
attributed by Thucydides viii. 68 to Antiphon, viz. political ability,
and the characters who are 'out of all proportion to other men '
are the master spirits of the world, who make events rather than
are made by them, and win, whether with many or with few, such
as Themistocles, Pericles, Alexander the great, Caesar, and in
modern times a RIarlborough, Rfirabeau, K'apoleon I, Bismarck.&&V T;,V 7iUhLTlk~V VphS T$Y fkiV6JV.0; ybp f6lXflV uiriv Byrrv rlju 'Apyh.
The legend is preserved by Apollodorus (i. 9. 5 19). According
him the ship Argo, speaking with a human voice, refused to
take on board Hercules, +&yEap'ivq pi 8;vaoBai @lp~(iv ri) r&rov
f%og. This agrees with the text of the Politics if the word i.;ytiv
is taken to mean 'convey,' ' take on board,' as in Soph. Phil. 901,