YO A RISTO TLE ’S P0LITlC.S.
not the same with the revolution in Megara, mentioned in Thuc.
iv. 74, which occurred after, and in consequence of, the retirement
of the Athenians (B.c. 424); possibly the same with the occasion
mentioned in iv. 15. 8 15, when the government was narrowed to
the returned exiles and their supporters. See on iv. 15. S 15.
3.5. b EU~O~UCILS rppb 6s rAWms wpauvK3os,
sc. 4 6vpoKpar1a S~c+Oiip7. According to the narrative of Herod.
vii. 155, the yapdpor were driven out by the Syracusan populace, and
returned under the protection of Gelon, to whose superior force
the Syracusans opened their gates. The destruction of the demo-
cracy may therefore be said to have been caused by the violent
conduct of the people towards the landowners. But if so, the
contradiction which Mr. Grote finds between the statements of
Herodotus and Aristotle admits of a reconcilement. See note on
c. 43, vol. v. 286, original edit. He thinks that for Gel0 we should
substitute Dionysius, and observes that the frequent confusion of
the two names was noted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiq.
Rom. vii. c. 1. p. 1314.
- iv T6pauri jv@~~Y.
Called by Herodotus (vii. 170) ‘ the greatest slaughter of Greeks
within his knowledge.’ Diodorus, ‘ the Sicilian,’ (xi. 52. $ s),
apparently in ignorance of the geography of Italy, sags that the
Iapygian victors pursued the Rhegians into the town of Rhegium
(a distance of about zoo miles), and entered with them!
- BqpoKparla +Cvcro ;K rohirciap.
Cp. vi. 5. §$ IO, 11, where the Tarentines are described in the
present tense as being under a sort of rohda or moderate demo-
cracy, to which they probably reverted at some time later than that
referred to in the text. In the Syracusan expedition they were
hostiIe to the Athenians (Thuc. vi. 44), and are therefore not likely
at that time to have been a democracy.
- 7, Kd “ApytI r& (V l$ 6$%pq did0phV hb ~f0~~VOUS^703 hh’,vor
jvayrdo&pyau aapo8c‘&o8ar r&u r~pproirt~~ rcuks.
themselves.
The meaning of the name Hebdom& was unknown to the Greeks
The victory of Cleomenes over the Argives is men-
