A’OTES, BOOh’ VI/. 12. 277
as a body. The distinction appears to be in the one case, that
Some of the magistrates are to go to the gymnasium, in the other
the exercises are to take place in or near the public buildings
appropriated to the magistrates. Everywhere the prescnce of the
authorities is required. *‘Some of the rulers are to be present
(Slarp&w) at the exercises of the younger men, but the elders
are to perform their exercises with the rulers.’ Here either another
verb has to be supplied with nap& TOTS Spxnuuiv or the word
GtarpiPciv is to be taken in a slightly different sense. Or 2) we may
translate, ‘and the elders shall be placed at the side of the
magistrates.’ This, however, disregards piv and 6i and seems not
to cohere with the words 8gpjnBar xash +&E 7jhKhS: for thus no
mention is made of the gymnastics of the elders. 3) The most
natural way of taking the Greek words (TOAS 61.. ;;II~UULV) that
‘ the magistrates shall perform their gymnastic exercises before
the elders,’ (St. Hilaire) gives a very poor sense. The clause 4
pip C‘V d+BaXpois K.r.X., shows clearly that the principal point is
the requirement of the presence of the magistrates at all gym-
nastic exercises.
It may be taken in the sense ol
‘institution,’ which is in some degree supported by the use of
K~T~OS +E ddas for ‘the order or constitution or the state,’
(mpi K~U~OU 6. 399 b. 18). Or* TO;TOV rhv ~o’upov may be the
accusative after Gr?lp+Onr and may be taken with Adolph Stahr in
the sense of ‘this embellishment of the state:’ [dieser Schmuck der
Stadt]. In this case it is better to make 6igpjaBai impersonal,
&pov being the indirect accusative following it. Ma; TO~TOV, this
institution too, i. e. as well as the offices of state which in c. 9 are
divided between old and young.The word K~V~OV is diflicult.iv 62 rGv Aviov K.~.X
Cp. supra, c. 5. Q 4.inci SZ ~d nkjdos Grarprirar T~E ndhrcor ct iepcis, ds Zpxovras.
The enumeration is incomplete, because Aristotle has only
occasion to speak of priests and magistrates. The places assigned
to their common tables, like those of the soldiers and the guardians
of the country, are to be situated conveniently for their employ-
12.6.