POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

i~~~~~, BOOK vrr. 6. 263

Aristotle \vould restrain foreign trade as much as possible, not

because he aims at exclusiveness, but because he dislikes the

moneymaking and commercial spirit.

inti 82 Kai vh 6pirpw noXXais bl~a'pxov xc'c xhpnis xa'c nLXruiv inivfia 6. 5.

ZaI kiph E&#w~)s KcLprva npi,~ nju ndXiv, Gun p{m rA nLrA vipciu dgru

n6ppm Xlnu, dXXh Kpa-reiaeat rdxcui xai TOLO;TOLP dk~oip ;p;paur,

+avcpbv &E ci p2v dyaffdv ri uurBalva ylyvfdar 6rh rijs miwowlac abri),,

hdp& rij no'hsi roko ri, iiyaffdv, ri 6: TL pXn,%pdu, $uXd[nuffni j&ov

rois wdpois +pd[ovras Ka'r Giop;$uwrar rIvns 06 6ci Kal r;vas islpiuyfo8oi 8ci

In this passage Clidpxow the reading of the IrlSS. has bren
altered into I) hdpxriv by Schneider and by Gekker in his 2nd
Edition; and also 2) into 6r;dt~xo~r~, in die latter case with the
omission of Kai. The alteration, though probable, is not necessary ;
for ipdpiov may be supplied with 6rdpxow from the preceding
sentence, the plural words iaiwcin Kal hip&as being taken in appo-
sition as an epexegesis. 'But now-a-days there are many cities
and places in which such a mart exists, [containing] docks and
harbours conyeniently situated in relation to the city; and as is
obvious, whatever evil there may be is avoided and thc good
secured, when they are placed at a moderate distance, but com-
manded by walls and similar fortifications.'
The inland position of the ancient Greek cities, as Thucydides
(i. 7) remarks, \vas due to the prevalence of piracy. Their ports
were added later, as the Piraeus at Athens, Nisaea at Megara,
Cenchreae and Lechaeum at Corinth, Cyllene at Eiis, Gythium at
Sparta, Nauplia at kgos, Siphae at Thespiae, Kotium at (2010-
phon, etc.

rpbs dXX~X0us.

rparctn6'ai = to be controlled or held in check by.

fl piW yhp 4y€POVLKbV Ka'l ~OXLTLK~V [$UETcll Br'Ob'.

$YfpOVlK6V, like Athens or Sparta in the days of their greatness,

The alteration of ~OXCV~K~U into IFOhfpCK&J in Bekker's

For TOXiTiKdS PLoE, applied to

Y. 7. 4 14.
and edition is quite unnecessary.
a city, cp. ii. 6. $ 7, ci Bci T$V n&v @;ow aohirixdu.

xoXXbr ybp irniqpoim rpi+is [oi 'HporXf&ar].

cp. Xen. Anab. v. 6. 5 IO, RoXXA ydp ~'uri nX6a c'w 'HpaKXriq.