2.20 ARlSTOTLE 'S POLZTICS.
in the margin of P6.
forms of government.'Eiptqv 'Apmshvqs qJofio6pfvos riv 8iapoXjv + afp'r AapCiov, ;il
h~pC O7 auw oh KrXc6cravros Sp[ov, LAX' or'dpcvor avyyYbucdat &E ,jpvvPn-The Xerxes here referred to is Xerxes the First, cp. Ctesiap'As well in monarchies as in more popularuodvra 8rh rb 8cirrvch.Fragmenta, IIrpcriKA § 29 (edit. Didot p. 51), 'Apr6xavos (sic) 6;
rap& El& 6vvhpwos, pfr Acrmpirpov TU; fbo;xov Ka'r airoi
Gvvap*tuov PouXfiovral durXriv ECp&lv, KU\L dvaipodcrc, Ka'r mieoum 'A~~~-
E;p[?v (sic) rbu uibv & Anpriaios (sic) a&rdv 6 hpos sais duck. &$
sapayivfrar Aapcraios dydprvos ;ab 'Aprardvov 6;s rfiv O~&U 'AproElp[ov
~oXXlr PoCv KO; daapvo&prvos As OJK e?? qJovrbs rod aarpds' KOI dno-I,
Bv<crKfi. According to Diod. xi. 69, Artabanus an Hyrcanian, having
by a false accusation got rid of one of the sons of Xerxes, shorti!
afterwards attacked the other son Artaxerxes who succeeded him,
but he was discovered and put to death. Both these stories, nhith
are substantially the same, are so different from the narrative of
Aristotle that it is better not to try and reconcile them by such
expedients as the placing 06 before &p;paor. The purport of
Aristotle's rather obscure words seems to be as follows : Artapanes
had hanged Darius the son of Xerxes who was supposed to haw
conspired against his father ; he had not been told to hang him
or he had been told not to hang him (for 06 KfXf6UaVTOS may mean
either); but he had hoped that Xerxes in his cups would forget
what precisely h<ippened.
Ctesias is several times quoted by Aristotle in the Historia
Animalium but ahays with expressions of distrust, ii. 1. 501 3.
25, iii. 22. 523 a. 26, viii. 28. 606 a. 8 ; also De Gen. An. ii. 2.
736 a. 2.10, 2 2. LapBavd7raXov.
A rather mythical person apparently the same with the r-~sur-
banipal of the Assyrian inscriptions, a mighty hunter and great
conqueror, who became to the Greeks and through them to the
civilized world the type of oriental luxury. The story of his
effeminacy is taken by Diodorus (ii, 23-27) from Ctesias and
again referred to by Aristotle in Nic. Eth. i. 5. $ 3.