2 44 ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS.
xovs &si 7cuuipwu ~Xoiqof, 8;~a 62 ani +Ohs 6<pOVs Knrivfpr ;p r;,i
rpvXdr.
Cp. Schomann's Antiquities of Greece, Engl. Transl., p. 336.
The breaking up old divisions in an army and a state is not
a mere change of names, but of traditions, customs! personal re.
lations-to the ancients even of gods. The division of France into
departments, the reorganisation of Italy and Germany, or, to tal;?
a minor instance, the recent redistribution of the English regiments.
are modern examples of the manner in which such changes 3ffVc.t
the habits of men or offend their prejudices.
- I. :UT1 6' ;pyOV.. , p/ylUTOV ZPYOV.
The repetition of +you is awknard; but the general style of t!ie
Politics is not sufficiently accurate to justify in omitting the nord
in either place.
- 8th &it ncpi &v ra8rdpqTat BP~TEPOV, T~S owqplar ~n'l @opn'l T~V
nohirciiju, i~ Toirov afp%dal KaraoKwi[fw s$u do$dhcmu.
hi; bcczuse of the instability of states ; the words mpi tv rfB&
pqrai vpiscpov are either omitted or altered by those who change the
order of the books.
The clause rhs uwsqph is the explanation of vtpi bw, and is
resumed in i~ soiswu.
- Kfl'l f$fpdVrmV XpbS 7; KOlUdU.
These words are an explanation of riuv K~~LKo<ovw, ' of tho$?
who are condemned, and so bring money into the public treasury,'
not voluntarily, but by the penalties which they incur,
Cp. Cleon in Aristoph. Knights (923) :
&fIS [poi KllhjU 6iK?U,
inoipcvos sais ;u$opnis.
;y; yhp is sois ?rhovniovs
ar;r;oo o' rhos hv iyypa$!js.
- &i rroiciv dXiyar iKKhqcriar.
Cp. iv. 14. 4.
- S. d8p6a xp$ biavc'pcrv TOTS hdpoig, pdhinra p&! rZ^719 %vasal roooi~ov
&6po$wv 6uov ds -p$ioi' KT~UIV.
