IVOTES, BOOK 11. 5. 57
Here, again, the antecedent to rah is to be gathered generally
from the context, = ' whether these communistic institutions are
necessary for the inferior and for the superior classes,' Cc.
cp. note on i. 2. $ 2.
UGU YE. 6.23.xai nrpi 7iv i~op~uov. 6. 23.6 As far, at least, as his book shows.'
SC. 06%;~ 6rBprurai from the previous sentence.Cp. supra c. 2. $ I.'And as to
matters connected with these, what is to be their government,
&at their education, what their laws, nothing has been deter-
mined.' A repetition of $ 18. The emendation dpxopivou (Con-
greoe) is unnecessary and out of place ; for Aristotle has already
disposed of the subject class in $ 22, and at S 24 he returns
to speak of the members of the state generally.
K~Y rl' xoivai at xr$utLs xai uE r8v ycopy8v yuuaks.
Sc. T~S O~KOPO~$UEL ; or more generally, ' What then'? Two cases
are supposed: I) what if wives are common and possessions
private ; and 2) what if possessions and wives are both common.a"rosou 8d KU'~ rb b r& Bqplwv ~oreio9ar *v napapohjv, &L Sei rh 6. 24.
The language is not exact; mLtiuBuL riv rrapa/3ohju=to argue'The rulers must always be the same; for they cannot change 6. 26.airh &rLrq8t6riv lis yuvakas rois civ8pa'uru ois oixouopias oi82v pirturcv.from the comparison of the animals. oL : sc. roL Bgpioir.
the metal or quality which is infused into their souls by nature.'
But then Plato supposes the whole ruling class to be guardians,
divided only as young and old into warriors and counsellors (as in
the State described in vii. 9. $ 5) ; and he provides for exceptional
merit by the transfer from one class to another. The actual
governing class are men advanced in years (Rep. vii. 536 ff.), and
Aristotle himself acknowledges (vii. 14. 8 5) that the division of
functions between young and old is natural, and that the young
their turn and do not rebel against such an arrangement.:
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8) KQ? r$v E~~QL~OV~V i@arpo6pcvos riu $V~~KOV, aqu @qui 8th 6. 27.
ECBaiuova notriv + Tdhtv rbu vopoeir,,v. 68;varov a; ri~acpovr;u ~~qv, pi
riv RkEiUrou 4 pj rrJvr~ pep8v 4 rtufv i,ydvrov nju r68aLpodau.
Thib Passage, like many others in the Politics, involves a rniscon-