POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

I j0 AR~~TOTLE s iwLriTiTcs.

rainy dnosotvar r+ rd&v. Not necessarily ' to restore ' or p

back' but more simply 'to give what is suitable, assign,' like [.;

ti~ov~ypd@oi] drro8ibdvsss T~V ;%av pop$<v, Poet. 15, 1454 b. IO.

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    20. rls p2v ottu bpioq noXirrLa, mi st& ~iv' aidav.
        Here, as limited in 4 I, ipi~r? TaL aXdornis ndhrai.
        8th riv' airinr, i. e. the moderation and stability of the state, cr
        v. 1. 5 16 \There it is implied that the safety of democracy is du,;
        to its approximation to the piu? 7ioXircia.
    
    
    
    


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    21. hiyo 6i rb apbs hd6caiv, &i aoXXdKis 0i;uqs dhhqs XOh~Tckns aipfn-
        rc'pas ;&is oie& Kwhiari uup@pciv irdpav pihXov cc'vai aoXiTriav.
        ' It may often happen that some constitution may be preferabie [i!i
        itself] and some other better suited to the peculiar circumstance..
        of some state.'
        apbs 6adOruiu here (as in c. 1. Q 4) means any supposed or piw;
        constitution, which may not be the best possible under the circuni-
        stances, but is the one to be preferred, in some states of society.
    
    
    
    


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    2. ;u%xcrai^82 r; piv noibr ladpxciv &py p+i T~S adhros, 2f iv UL~;.
       m?wr prpiv i TrdXlS.
    
    
    
    

clause ll Eu K.T.~. is explanatory of iripy pipci=iripy riv p'~p&s.

' Kamely to one of those parts which make up the state ' j t!w

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    3. 0"riou Lncpixcc ri, T~V d~dpov ahi6os riv eipvpivqv dvaXoyiav.
       'When the poor esceed in number the [due] proportion im-
       plied in the last xords.'
       12.3. rai rijs dhiyapxias riiv aCrbv rpdaou &aarov ~20s Karh rtv ii7irpnxiy
       TO; ~X~YCI~XLKO; aXj60vs.
       s And in like manner (not only oligarchy in general, but) eah
       sort of oligarchy varies according to the predominance of each
       sort of oligarchical population (sc. 6 Crrdpxci aCrfj).
    
    
    
    


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    5. aavm);o; 82 aiurdraros 6 Biairrjrjs, Giairrjrjs 6' 6 piuos.
       The middle class are the arbiters between the extremes Oi
       oligarchy and democracy.
       plnos, this is probably meant in the same sense in which 8i~o~
       is said to be a mean because it fixes a mean, Cp. Nic. Eth. YG 5
    
    
    
    

dprraiv, &hi' o"ri pc'uou lariv, and v. 4. $ 7, ~ib ~i 6rou &p+iut%T~~"'~

When Aristotle calls the arbiter

4 17, 6 8; 8LKnruviv?) prudrvs iuriv 0; sbv a;rdv rpdnov rais ~rpdrf~~"