POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

204 ARlSTOTLE'S P0LlTlC.S.

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   12. Timophanes was a Corinthian general, who was about to
       come, or for a short time became, tyrant of Corinth. He was sl,lin
       either by the hand (Diod. ?;vi. 65), or at the instigation, of his
       brother Timoleon (Plutarch, Timoleon, C. 4).
   
   
   
   


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   13. T&J rfpi Zpov.
       urlpov is found in all the Greek NSS. and in the old Latin trans-
       lator. It shews at any rate the faithfulness with which they topic,[
       an unmeaning reading. Zpov nhich is adopted by Beklrer in boill
       editions is an ingenious conjecture of Schlosser. Sinius, if hc lie
       the person mentioned in Demosthenes (de Cor. p. z~I), nns a
       Larissaean who betrayed Thessaly to king Philip.
   
   
   
   


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    13. iv 'X@I&I r&u &arpr&u &v $v pk 4 'I$rdSow.
        The name of Iphiades occurs in Demosthenes (in Aristocratem,
        p. 679), where it is said that his son was, or ought to have been,
        given up as a hostage to the Athenians by the tow, not of Ahydos
        but of Sestos. It will be remembered that at Abydos (supra c. 6.
        $ 6) some of the magistrates were elected by the people from n
        political club. The manner in which he is spoken of would lend
        US to suppose that Iphiades was tyrant of hbydos, and that by the
        help of his club he had overthrown the oligarchy.
    
    
    
    


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    14. Of the great Euboean cities Chalcis and Eretria, as of SO mnny
        other Hellenic states which were famous in the days before the
        Persian War, little is knonn. \Ye are told in bk. iv. 3. $ 3 hi
        the Chalcidians used cavalry against their opponents, and there is
        an allusion in Thuc. i. 15 to the ancient war between Chalcis and
        Eretria which 'divided all Hellas,' again mentioned by Herod. V. 9%
    
    
    
    

e, I 5. T~V 6' ;v 9$&ais KOT' 'A~x;ou.
The only Archias of Thebes knonn to us was an oligarch, who
betrayed the citadel of Thebes to the Spartans, and \vas afiernards
himself slain by Pelopidas and his fellow conspirators. An oligar-
chical revolution could not therefore be said to have arisen Out Of
his punishment. Yet the uncertainty of the details of Greek history
in the age of Aristotle shculd make us hesitate in assuming a Second
person of the name. The mention of Heraclea in justapositioJ1