POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

A-OOTES, DOOA V. 12. ‘3.3
Ilere as elsewhere Aristotle is really objecting to a figure of
Speech, Plat. Rep. iv. 422 E; viii. 551 D. It may be certainly
of a state which is governed by an oligarchy, with much more
truth than of a timocracy or democracy, that it consists of two
cities.

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Yet in iii. 15. 5 12, Aristotle says that oligarchies passed into

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iyrannies and these into democracies.