232 ARZSTOTLE’S POLITZCS.
development of the Platonic cycle, and it is natural to ask ‘jyh,.
does not the cycle continue or return into itself?‘) The meaniRg
may then be paraphrased as follows : ‘He never says whether
might be espected) tyranny, like other forms of government,
experiences a change, or if not, what is the explanation of [hi..
inconsistency? ’
- rj XapiXdou.
According to Heraclidea Ponticus (fr. z hIuller) Charillus.
the name is also spelt in ii. 10. $ 2, or Charilaus, as here,
made himself tyrant during the absence of Lycurgus, who on hi.;
return to Sparta restored or introduced good order. The chanp
which he thcn effected in the constitution of Sparta is called liy
Aristotle, who appears to follow the same tradition, a changc
from tyranny to aristocracy.
- rj XapiXdou.
- I 2. tv Kapxr$kh.
SC. rupavvis pfriBaXcv FIs ripiuroKpariav. Yet he says in Book ii
c. 11. $ z -‘that Carthage has neve1 had a sedition worh
spcaking of, nor been under a tyrant,’ and a similar statemcnt
occurs in this chapter ($ 14). Cp. also vi. 5, $ 9, T(11O~TOV 6d TUG
TpdTOV I<ll,OXq86VlOl TlJ~lrflJd~fUOl #lxOU K;KT?)VTUl 7bV 8GpOV‘ de; ydp TlY5E
~KH;/LTOVTfS 706 A{pOU TPpbE ThS TfplOlK&S TOLO6UlV &dpouS K.T.X. To
avoid this apparent contradiction St. Hilaire conjectures XahK?)GdvL,
a useless emendation of which there can be neither proof nor
disproof; for we know nothing of the history of Chalcedon and
not much of the history of Carthage.
It might be argued that the text as it stands may refer to a
time in the history of Carthage dflofore the establishment of the
aristocratical constitution described in Bk. ii, c. 11, as he says in
this very passage of Lacedaemon, 5 I 2, that it passed from tyranny
into aristocracy. But such’a violent supposition is hardly to be
assumed in order to save Aristotle’s consistency. 14 infra, he
calls Carthage a democracy. In ii. 11. $ 5, he talks of it as
having a democratic element.
In- I j. &orow^62 mi r~ +ai &o n-oxcis tfvar riw dXiyapXixjv, IrAovoiop *ai
Tf4TOV.