272 ARZSTO TLE’S POLITICS.
country its origin dates further back than in the former, for
Sesostris is older than IIinos, and therefore it is said to haye
originated there.
- aXe8bu p& oh KCI~ rL aha 6ci uop[(ciu cipjub’ac VOXXLKLS c‘u 74 oh^+
A favourite reflection of Aristotle’s. See note on text for parallel
xplvy.
passages.
- ZTL 81 ndwa Apxaia.
‘A11 political institutions are ancient; for they are found in
Egypt which is the most ancient of all countries.’ Cp. Plat. Laws
ii. 657. ‘Their (Le. the Egyptian) works of art are painted or
moulded in the same forms which they had ten thousand years
ago; this is literally true, and no exaggeration.’ For further
references see note on text. That this sameness was the n-rak-
ness of Egypt, and that the life of Hellas was progress, seems not
to have occurred either to Aristotle or Plato.
- roir p& ~ZpqpLCvots
is the reading of the IUSS., altered in the text after Lambinus
into cApqpivois, a change which seems to be required by the want of
a suitable antecedent and by the parallelism of IrapaXcXecppiva. Cp.
supra, uxc8bu piu O~U Kai r& aha 66; uop&v tipj~th ~oXALKLS~ and
ii. 5. $ 16.
- IO. v”U~cp0v Ipo+u.
This promise is not fulfilled. In c. 12. $ I the common meals
are only mentioned in passing ; no reason is given in support of
the institution.
- I I. rb spbs robs durvycirouns nokipovs dpOUO?pKojT€pU.
A lesson learned from the experience of Athens during the
Peloponnesian War. The Acharnians whose lands lay on the
borders, seeing them ravaged, wished to attack the invaders rashly
(Thuc. ii. ZI), and afterwards when they had lost their possessions
as Archidamus thought likely (Thuc. ii. 20 &TTC~~~~UOWS rip ~$6-
Tipow Obx 6po;os npo8ipovr hcu8ar hip r?~ riv bkou Krv8WVc~tw,
