iYOTES, BOOK VlZZ. 5. 297
Pontus and could hardly have been described as in this state of
savagery, nor as in the translation ‘there are other inland tribes,’
for the Achaeans are not inland tribes (unless indeed the tribes
‘about the Pontus’ are called continental with reference to the
Mediterranean), but more accurately ‘ other tribes on the main-
land.’ For another mention of these cannibals in Aristotle, cp.
Nic. Eth. vii. 5. 2.pi P$S dUKOhOS. 4.4.
Said for BP~E pi ~~VKOI~W Rut the fall of Sparta was not really
due to the improvements of the other Hellenes in gymnastics;
though the equal or superior military discipline of hIacedon at
last overpowered them.The fall and decay of Sparta is a political lesson which greatly 4. 4-7.
impresses Aristotle, cp. notes on vii. 11. 8 8 and c. 14. $ 16 ff.
So in modern times the superiority of nations has often been due
to their superior organization. Those who organize first will be
first victorious until others become in their turn better trained and
prepared. By Organization Frederick the Great crushed Austria,
as she was afterwards crushed once more in 1866; again the
military organization both of Prussia and Austria crumbled before
Napoleon at Jena, as the French organization was in turn over-
powered by the new military development of Germany in 1870.
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Cp. Plato (e.g. Phaedo 87 A, Soph. 238 B) for a similar per-sonification of the argument.
A warning against overstraining of the faculties in youth which 4. 8.
may be applied to the young student of modern times as well as to
the young Olympic victor.
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A musical term and therefore appropriately used in speaking of- I.