276 ARISTOTLE'S POLZTICS.
- IO. dpoiws^61 wai rais oir+ui iais i8iurs pi acpiBdAhcrv roixouc.
Private houses as well as cities, especially in the country, might
in many cases need the protection of walls.
Lipo[ws a;, sc. :Xfl*
- I. aird,
sc. rh rtlxq, i. e. the position of the walls ; or more generally,
' the consideration of these circumstances.'
- dpxfiwv.
The 3ISS. vary between GppxLv, Apxaiov, dpxfior.
- crq 6' &v TOlOUiOS 6 i67rOS O*U7LS InL+dvfldv if FXfL spbs njv Tijs apcis
Bhv iKa& rai apbs rh ywvlivra plpq iijs ndhrws ~~U~VOTL~OS.
Lir. ' This place should be of a sort which has conspicuousness,
suitable to the position of virtue, and towering aloft over the
neighbouring parts of the city.'
Thomas Aquinas, who wrote a Commentary on the Politics, if
ne may judge from his Latin ' bene se habentem ad apparentiam
virtutis,' seems to have read Biurv re FXCL +S T+J T~P Gpssjs &ri@-
vciav. (Susemihl.) But the words are better as they are found
in the Greek AISS.
The habitation of virtue is to be like that of the Gods who
have their temples in the Acropolis. Cp. Vitruv. I. 7 Aedibus
vero sacris quorum deorum maxime in tutela civitas videtur esse,
unde moenium maxima pars conspiciatur areae distribuantur '
(quoted by Schneider); and Burke, French Revolution, p. 107,
' The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence.'
