2 70 A RIST^0 I‘LE’.S POL ZTZC.7.
Q, 8. chp ;uayxa;ov &ai roi~ yropyois 8o;Xous^4 PapBhpour.
The necessity seems to arise from the impossibility of the
husbandman having the leisure which a citizen requires for mental
cultivation and the fulfilment of political duties, cp. 4.
- IO. rtai rrx&piurai 8; sol;sov FKaurov, r1 piu del, rb 62 Karh plpor.
TO~TOU, i. e. not merely the S.T~X&TIK~U and PouXcuriKLv ; to thej<>
must be added the ycopyoi, T+rai, and rb Bqri~d~, in all five. The
two first interchange with each other, but never with the three last.
The division between the mere conditions of the state (viz. the
yfopyoi, rsxvirai and rd SqnK6u) and the parts of it (rd 6nXiri~hv
f~~ukc~r~d~) is permanent. The division betwen rb ~TXLTLK~U, 7; 1;”
irplov Y&OE and 72) pouhruriKAu is transitory or Karh p;pos, i.e. the
same persons may belong in turn, or at different stages of life, to
all three classes.
- I. FoiKf 8 ot 6v 01%; vfouri TO%’ fbai yvwpipov rois ncpi i’rohidap
+Aocro+oCcrLv, gri 8ci 8inpijuBai ppir Karh yiq riv T~XLU.
This chapter has been regarded, and perhaps xith reason, as a
criticism of Plato, Aristotle being desirous of disproving by
historical facts the claim of Plato to originality in instituting the
system of caste and of common meals.
- rh piu ncpi Kp4rqv yfudpwa K.T.~.
In apposition with rirv UUUULT~W 6 rd&, the custom in Crete
going back to the reign of Minos.’
- 3-5. ‘ The name Italy was originally confined to the district between
the Lametic and Scylletic Gulfs’ (Golfo di Eufemia and Golfo dl
Squillace), ‘and was derived from Italus, an ancient king of the
Oenotrians ’ (called by Thucydides vi. z a Sicel king) ‘who in-
habited these regions. The people to the north-west tovards
Tphenia were called Ausones and those to the north-east in the
district called Siritis’ (on the shore of the Tarentine gulf)
‘ Chones.’
The mention of Italy (taken in this narrower sense) leads the
writer to particularise its different regions; but nothing is said
about how far the custom of common meals may have extended.
