.TOTES, BOOK I.: 12. 23 I.\ristotle omit Dionysius, n hose tyranny lasted longer, and therefore
Dionysius I B.C. 4oj-367, Diony-
SIUQ I1 367-356, and again 346-344, besides the shorter reigns
of Dion and others, in all about 60 years.a better example?i8;ws. 12. 7.
i, e. in any way specially applicable to that form of government.lye may observe that Aristotle criticises the Platonic number ns 12. 8.
if it had a serious meaning : yet he omits rpi~ nL$t#cir, nords
~vhich are an essential part of the calculation, after 6io rippoulno
snpi‘Xmt. (See Rep. viii. 546 C.)616 Tf TO; XpdVOV.
Sc. ~i hv Z&OE cZq ~ETQ$OX$ to be supplied from the preceding
‘And in what is any special change made by time?’scntence.
i. e. What has time alone to do with the changes of states?With rd pr) &p@pwa supply ri or 6rA ri from TL‘ bv ci’q above; cp. 12. 9.
6th rlv’ nidnv (infra Q IO).
begin together change together ?’‘ And why should things which do not
6ih riv’ niriav ;K rairqs cis T~U .Iaxwuix$v pfra$dXXfi ; 12. 10.
Aristotle unfairly criticizes Plato’s order as if it wcrc mcant to
be an order in time. The same objection might be taken to his
own use of the phrases ~LFT~,%~XCW and pcra$abtiv in Nic. Eth.
viii. IO, where he talks as if states always ‘passed over’ into their
opposites :-the passing over ’ is logical, a natural connexion of
ideas, not always historical.~TC 62 rvpavvi8op ob XCycr oh’ ti iurat ~ETII$OX{, oh’ ci p{ ;mat, 12. I I.- *‘He never says whether tyranny is or is not liable to revo-
lutions, and if it is, what is the cause of them and into what form
it changes’-a condensed sentence in which KII~ is omitted bcfore
6th rlv’ airiav. - It is also possible and perhaps better, with Bekker in his
second edition, to place a comma after the second O~C: oGT’, rt pi
;Ur~i, Bd riv’ airlnv. (It will be remembered that tyranny is the last
TIP’ at.riav, Kai cis miav voXirc;nv.cio aoiav no~trsia~, SC. iorai pcrapohi.