BOOK VI.
The greater part of Book vi. has been already anticipated in
iv. A fe\v sen-
tences map be paralleled out of ii. and iii. (See English Test.)
The whole is only a different redaction of the same or nenrl!
the same materials which have been already used ; not much i.
added. The varieties of democracy and oligarchy and the causes
of their preservation or destruction are treated over again, hu: in 2
shorter form. The management of the poor is worked out in
greater detail : the comparison of the military and civil constitution
of a state is also more precise and exact. The magistrates re-
quired in states are regarded from a different point of view : in iv.
they are considered chiefly with reference to the mode of electing
them and their effect on the constitution; in vi. they are enume-
rated and described, and the oficers necessary to all states art‘
distinguished from those which are only needed in certain states.
Thcre are several passages in which a previous treatment of th
same subjects is recognized (1. $ I, 6 j, $ 8, 9 IO; 4. 8 I. 4 I,;- The references seem to have been inserted nidi
a view of combining the two treatments in a single work.
There are also scleral repetitions of Book v.2; 8. $ I).
- hpa rc mp‘r iKcivov cr TL Xorn6v
seems to indicate the supplementary character of this part of
the work. I) As well as any omission of those matters (;dV.V)
which have just been mentioned,’ i. e. the offices, lam-courts, etc. ;
or z*) iKfiXW may refer to the forms of constitutions [m~trairv].
- hpa rc mp‘r iKcivov cr TL Xorn6v
- 4-6. BekEer in his 2nd edition inserts mpi T?J before po~Acuo’pcvov in
$ 4, and ixci before 6ci in $ 6 without any authority, both apP-
rently in order to make the language smoother and more regular.
But this is not a good reason for altering the test of Aristotle.