-vor,w, ,WOK zrz- 13. '37
\~ould have recourse to it or not.
nppointed on nhich the vote was taken.If they approved, a day
To ostracise any
not less than 6000 citizens must vote against him, IVe may
readily believe, as Aristotle tells US ($ 23), that ' instead of looking
Lo the public good, they used ostracism for factious purposes.'
.~ri~tides, according to the well-known legend, \vas banished be-
c;,u~e the people nere tired of his virtues. Tlieniistocles, the
aa\iour of Hellas, was also ostracised (Thuc. i. 137). The last
occasion on which the power \vas exercised at Athens was against
IIyperbolus, nho was ostracised by the combined influence of
Sicins and Alcibiades. Other states in which the practice pre-
vailed were Argos (1,. 3. p 3), hfegara, Syracuse, JIiietus, Ephesus.flh '.\f?qVUiOL piL' Xfp'r ZUpr'OUS Ka'r Xr'flUS Ka'r hcufiious.
For the Samians, cp. Thuc. i. 116 ; for the Chians, Thuc. iv. 51 ;for the Lesbians, Thuc. iii. 10.
&T€ 6rh 70;TO p;U O%iV KWX6fL TO&S pOVdPXOUS (TUtL'#NEiV TaiS lT6hTlV, 13. 2 2.
ti rjc oiKfins ripxijs &$cXLpou rais xdhcuru oUIu?s roho Gptorv.
I)*, 'as far as the appiication of this principle of compulsion
is concerned, there is nothing to prevent agreement between kings
and their subjects, for all governments must have recourse to a
Finiilar policy' (cp. note on 9 16). roirro Gptu~v refers to the whole
passage: sc. if they use compulsion for the benefit of the whole
stare.
Or z), ' there is nothing to make the policy of kings differ from
that of free states,' It is an objection, though not a fatal one, to
his way of taking the passage that rais ndhcoru then occurs in two
successive lines in different senses.~d rhs 6poXoyoup;vas bi~cpoxds.
The meaning is that where the superiority of a king or govern-
lnent is acknowledged, there is a political justification for getting a
rival out of the way.dUh ,U$V 06%' Zp:pxclv yc roc TOLO&OV* napashjorov yhp K~V E; TOO A& 13. 25.
~PXE~V dEioirv, pcpigovrq rhs dpxcis.
See note on text. 6 Nay, more ; a man superior to others is like