222 ARlSTOTLE'S POLITICS.
'~hhd60~ isi soh3 KU~ npiv rupuvvcvOciuqs oi shriuroL KU~ rrhcuruiol, r;)ijv
ri)~ h ~LKEA;~, Csb .4axr6acpoviov xarrhiB?uav : and Hdt. v. 92 about
the Lacedaemonian hatred to tyranny.
- Kac i, xvpaco&noL.
This period of liberty and prosperity lasted for sixty years, 466-
406, from the overthrow of Thrasybulus to the usurpation of
Dionysius. But more is known of Sicily in the days of the tyran;s
than of the time when the island was comparatively free.
- Kac i, xvpaco&noL.
- 3 I. KR'~ vcv fj rirv wpi Atov&rtov.
The final expulsion of Dionysius the younger by Timoleon
occurred B. c. 343 ; but it is the first expulsion by Dion to which
Aristotle is here referring, B. C. 356, as the Politics mere n.rixrri
not earlier than 336 (see supra note on Q 16). We have ihus
a measure of the latitude with which Aristotle uses the expression
KU~ viiv 'quite IateIy' which recurs in ii. 9. 4 20, KU~ vu^v iv 70;s
'Av6pioro.
10.3r. ol 6; UUG-rTdVTCS U6TGV.
Either I) the same persons who are called oi~tioi uuunhr, or
some part of them, oi uuurdvrc~ being taken substantively=oi uuuru-
uci)raL. Or 2) aCrSv may be understood of the whole people as if
soA;rot had preceded; uuurdvrrs would then refer to another band
of conspirators who were not of the family. Bekker in his second
edition has inserted Kar' before a6rbv without MS. authorit!
Susemihl suggests pcrd.
The reign of Thrasybulus, if indeed he reigned at all except in
the name of his nephew, as seems to be implied in this passage,lastt.(i
only eleven months ; see infra c. 12. 6. According to Diodoruj
(xi. 67, 68), who says nothing of a son of Gelo, he imrnediztei!'
succeeded Hiero, but soon provoked the Spracusans by his cruei[!'
and rapacity to expel him.Neither emendation is satisfactory.
- ALOI~LTLOV 62 Aiov crrparchuas, K$EQT~]s Bv Kai T;~OLT~R@W 7;~' 8iP0",
irrivov ~K~UX~JV 6tc@'dp?.
This is a reminiscence of Q 28. The emphasis is on ;@lh~r'*
-\ristotle is speaking of cases in which tyrants were destroyed b!'
- ALOI~LTLOV 62 Aiov crrparchuas, K$EQT~]s Bv Kai T;~OLT~R@W 7;~' 8iP0",