A’OTES, BOOR V. IO. 2’5
r;phr sojerrnv T,)U drb ro;i S$uow. 10.3.
(The assistance which arises from i.e. is necessitated by the
pple.’ Such we must infer to be the meaning from the parallel
clause &d TO~S yvop$~ous which follows.& ilTlfIdU1. 10.3.
1 The good’ in the party sense, i.e. the higher classes like the
dyneo; of Theognis 32 Bergk and elsevhere.Besides the three accounts of the origin of monarchy given in 10. 3,
i. 2. 5 6 (the patriarchal); and iii. 14. $ 12 and infra $9 7, 8
(election for merit), and iv. 13. 4 11 (the ivealiness of the middle
and lower classes), we have here a fourth in which the royal
authority is said to have been introduced for the protection of the
aristocracy against the people.Supra, c. 5. $ 8, Aristotle speaks of tyrannies arising out of thc 10.5.
need which democracies felt of a protector of the people against
the rich before they became great (ah d pi pfyhhar cLnr rhs no9.w) ;
here, when they were already ‘ increased in power,’ ($87 r&u mikou
~$qpdvov). But the discrepancy is verbal. For the terms greatness
and littleness might be used of the same states at different periods
of Greek history.oi bjpor. 10. 5.
Xot the democracies,‘ but the peoples in different states.’Pheidon, a legitimate king of Argos, tenth or sixth in descent 10.6.
from Temenus, called by Herodotus (vi. 127) a tyrant, who gave
the Peloponnesians weights and measures. He is said to have
driven out the Elean judges, and to have usurped authority over
the Olympic games. According to Ephorus fr. 15, Muller i. p. 236,
he recovered the whole lot of Temenus and attempted to reduce
dl the cities once subject to Heracles. He was at length over-
thrown by the Eleans and Lacedaemonians.
Phalaris, according to Arist. Rhet. ii. 20. 5, 1393 b. 8 fi., was 10. 6.
elected by his Himerian felloiv citizens general and dictator of
Himera. It was on this occasion that Stesichorus told the story