POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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.VOTES, OOOh’ IT. j. 199
pI(1ces bear the name of Heraclea. The Heraclea in Pontus is
tile most important of them and may be presumed to be meant
\\hen there is no further description as here or in c. 6. $8 2, 3.

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ds apoud&~ur rais hsiroupy;ais. 5. 5.
Some word containing the idea of diminishing has to be supplicd
flom 6vn6;urour rruco;vrts.

Demagogues like Cleon, Lysicles, Eucrates, Hyperbolus, Cleo- 5. 7.
i’hon, vere of a different type from Peisistratus or Periander, and
equally different from Hiero and Gelo or Dionysius the First.
Three reasons are given for the frequent attempts to establish 5. 8.
tyrannies in early Greek history--I) there were great magistracies
in ancient states ; 2) the people wre scattered and therefore
incapable of resistance; 3) the demagogues were trusted by them,
because they were supposed to be the enemies of the rich.
ncloiurparos urauiduas sphr TOAS m8baKo;s. 5. 9.
According to the narrative of Herodotus, i. 59 ff., Attics was at
this time divided into factions, that of the inhabitants of the plain
led by Lycurgus, and of the sea coast by niegacles, to which was
added a third faction of the inhabitants of the highlands whom
Peisistratus used as his instruments. He wts restored to the tyranny
by a combination of his own adherents and those of hlegacles
against the inhabitants of the plain.


ecayCys iv ~sydpors. 5. 9.
Theagenes is mentioned in Thuc. i. 126 as the father-in-law of
Cylon the conspirator ; and in Arist. Rhet. i. 2, 1357 b. 33, as an
example of a tyrant who like Peisistratus had asked for a guard.


Alo&alos rarqyophu Aa$uabu. 5. IO.
cp. Diod. Sic. (xiii. 86, 91, 92) who narrates how Daphnaeus,
having been elected general by the Syracusans, failed to relieve
Agngenturn and on the motion of Dionysius was deposed from
his Command.

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