POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

228 ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS.

certain periods of the year and ' should remember to support tlirir

station with becoming dignity,' p. 476. cp. Hallam, Mid. Ages i. 66,

' The sting of taxation is wastefulness. What high-spirited man

could see without indignation the earnings of his labour yiel&d

ungrudgingly to the public defence become the spoil of parasitcj

and specu!ators ?' (quoted by Congreve).

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    19. Rekker in his 2nd edition, following a suggestion of Schneidrr,
        adds sir before Gwptds, but unnecessarily.
    
    
    
    


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    22. The moderation here described in everything but ambition \vnj
        shown by the elder Dionysius as he is pictured by Cornelius Ncpo,
        De Regibus c. 2 : ' Dionysius prior.. et manu fortis et belli peritus
        fuit, et, id quod in tyranno non facile reperitur, minime libidinow,.
        non luxuriosus, non avarus, nullius rei denique cupidus, nisi singu-
        his perpetuique imperii, ob eamque rem crudelis. Nam dum id
        srutluit munire, nullius pepercit vitae, quem ejus iniidiatorem
        putarct.'
        The second Dionysius would furnish a tyrant of the oppi:r
        type ($ P:), if we may believe the nriter of the Aristotelian Polity of
    
    
    
    

ntr;u [~~~~i~~~~ rhU u~~Tfp~~] &s' o"rf i& +;pas dm,iKovra pCebClu~ 61;

wtli ;p$huw7;drcpou ycuiu8ac rls L'+crs. (Arist. Berl. Ed. 1568, b. 19.)

Syracuse, '+nore'hqs 62 iu rj ZU~ILKO&V rrohf:? uuusXLs @qu;v

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    23. +a;ufu.Bcu rois CA'XXois fh;Xourur TOGTO iiomihrts.
        Thesc words curiously illustrate the love of ostentation inherrllt
        in the Greek character.
    
    
    
    


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    24. KtITtIUKfUd[flY YAP 6s: Kfl; K0UPE;Y 77). 7TdhlU.
        Like Polycrates at Samos, ' Gelo at Syracuse, Cypselus and
        I'rrinnder at Corinth, Theron at Agrigentum, Peisistratus at
        A thcns.
    
    
    
    


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    28. KOh(;VfWS.
        Bracketed by Rekker in his 2nd edition after Schneider.
        Certainly the word is not appropriate if taken with $ALK[(Iu. but
        &fJpfws may be supplied n ith ris CIS T+J $AlKiaU from the preceding,
    
    
    
    


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    30. %in+9fipnurfs.
        SC. TAU r+auvou.