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8~: yirp +E ;K~UT~V mhrrddac. 1. 2.
Here Susemihl has adopted ?TQL8f6fUfh after Aretino's transldtion.
But roX1rtidh the reading of the Greek 1lSS. is also confirmed
by William de hIoerbek, ' politizarc,' and is more in accordance
irith the context : 'For the life of the citizen should conform to
the state, because the state is of one character, and this unity
in the end of the state necessitates unity in the education of the
citizens.'
$avfppbv o"rr KQ~ riv sar8clav piav KQ~ T$V a+ dvayraiov tlvac ~dvrov 1.3.
KO; TQLkqS TiV i7TkpiXfLQV ffVQ1 KOlU$V KO; pi KRT' i8;QV.
Cp. Nic. Eth. X. 9. 4 14, K~~TLUTOU pip odv ~pb yi(yvro8or mu+
iBCp~hflQV KQ~ ;pBju, where he goes on to show that public education
can be best enforced, but that, since it is generally neglected, we
must have recourse to private education, which moreover will take
into account the peculiarities of the individual case ; also that the
education of individuals must be based upon general principles,
and these are to be gathered from the science or art of legislation.
ATQLU;UTFLE 8' gv TLS sal TO%O haK€8arpov~ous* KQ~ yhp nXciurrp mtoivtai 1. 4.
urrov8iv mpi roiis ?rai%as KQ~ ~01.5 TQ~T~V.
Aristotle appears to praise the Lacedaemonians, not for the
quality of their education (cp. infra c. 4), but for the circurnstancc
that it was established by law. Accortling to Isocrates Panath.
276 d, the Spartans fell so far below the general standard of
education in Hellas, that they did not even know their letters,
TOUO~V &ohXcrppiuoi 6js KOL+ rai8tias KQ~ @iXouo$ias tiuiu Gur' ot8l
ypn'ppa ~QV~VOWUW: and according to Plato, or rather according
to the author of the Platonic Hippias Major (285 C), ' not many of
them could count.'
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