NOTES, BOOK I. I. 3
idea of an ‘imperfect’ state, like that contained in Plato’s Laws,
has to be gathered from the whole preceding passage.
KRT& 74V dhnpdyv pl608OV. 1. 3.
i. e. the method of analysis which resolves the compound into
the simple. cp. c. 8. 8 I, &lor 82 scpi sdqs rr{ucos w4i ~pqparruri*i)s
6fop$UopCV K4T& TAP 64qMphOV TfhOV, irfi7rcp K4i d 8OChOS 74s KTjUfoS
pipos 7.1 $
~$w&v~v, which we have followed,’ not merely in the Ethics,
as Schneider and others; for the same expression occurs N. E.
ii. 7. 4 g (Karh TAV Cr#qy&wv ~pbsov), and therefore can hardly
refer to them, but ‘generally’ or ‘ in this discussion.’ The pe‘8o%os,
like the X+OO in Placo, goes before and ae follow. Cp. De Gen.
Anim. 3. 758 a. 28, and note on c. 13. 6 6.
;UXC~ 7hp iv rois a’hiots 71) u6vBc7ov pCxpr 7i)v ciuvu8Crov dvdywq 1. 3.
8inipciv (sacra ybp f’dxiura pdpia roc ram&), oh Kai rdhrv it tv
o6yxcirai UKO7rO;VTfS t+dpfea Kai ncpi rorirwv pirXhov, ri rc %ia$ipovucvroirov may either refer I)* to it fv uiyrtirai, i. e. the elements of
the state which he is going to distinguish in this book ; or 2) to
the different kinds of rule mentioned in the preceding paragraph
(Bernays, Susemihl) : in the latter case it is paraphrased by scpl
Zraurou 7i)v p&iov, in the next clause. (For the vague antecedent
to roirov cp. supra c. 2. $9 2, 12, etc.,etc.) Aristotle treats of ‘the
kinds of rule ’ in Book iii. cc. 7,8, and in the fourth and sixth books.
ra;, according to the first explanation=‘as about the state so
about the elements of the state,’ according to the second,=‘ about
kinds of government as well as about other things.’ &mfp iv 70%
JXXois.. rai scpi roirov is repeated or resumed in &mcp iv rois WAOLE
4 iv tohots at the beginning of the next paragraph, c. 2. 6 I.
The argument is to the effect that if we analyse forms of
government into their parts, or into their kinds, we shall see
that they differ in something besides number-e. g. in the nature
of the authority exercised in them, or in the character of their
magistracies, or in the classification of their citizens. (Cp. iv. 4.
6 7 E.) That states consist not only of their elements, but have in
them something analogous to the principle of life in the human
CiXXiXov rai 6 ri rqviK1)v dvGXcrac XaBcb scpi Zraurov ri)v Pq6ivrov.
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