POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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,\'OTES, ROOK ff. 6. 63


$8 2, V. 12. $8 12, 14); but such a slip would be remarkable
in a writer who has elsewhere called Pheidon tyrant of Argos,
v. 10. $ 6.
Tcpi p& ro&uv.. XfKrioU v"O7fpOV.
There is no adequate fulfilment of this promise to resume the
But cp. vii. 5.









question hereafter. I ; 10. $ I I ; 16. § 15.


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Aristotle is finding fault with Plato's vagueness :-' He says
nothing but that the governors and governed should be made of a
different wool.'








  1. rzuav o~ulav i+iqui yivdai pei&ua plxpi mvrartlaoias.
    Cp. Laws, v. 744 E, where the proprietor is allowed to acquire
    (Kniu8ai) four times the value of his original inheritance. If we
    add in the original inheritance which was not acquired, the limit
    of property will be fivefold. There is no reason for supposing any
    mistake in this statement (Susemihl) or in c. 7. 8 4.








ai T+ rb oixmiaov 82 SraipEorv afi UKOnfiV, pi roi 06 mp$;pn 6.15.

One of the homesteads is to be in the city, another on the border
(v. 745 E), the first to be the dwelling of the elders, the second of
the son of the house (vi, 776 A). A plan similar to the one which
he condemns is adopted by Aristotle in vii. 10. $ I I : cp. note on
text, in which the inconsistency of the two passages is pointed out.


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$p rSu 6rrXircvbrou turiu. 6. 16.
The normal idea of a roXirtia is that it consists of the free
citizens who carry arms and are its natural defenders. Cp. iii.



  1. $8 3, 4, i%av 8; rt r~tj~or rpts rt xotutu roXirr;r,rai uvp$;pov,
    Kahhai rb mwtv &pa rauoiu r5u roXirrr&, rroXiTcia* ovpbaiusi 8'
    %'~s' &a piu yhp 8ia#j;pciu KUT' ips+ rj dAiyovs iu%~xc~ai, alciovr
    6' i% xdcrbv +pibi)odal rptr nicuau dptnjv, ci~~ir piliora r+ ro~c-
    PG~. yhp iu aAjefl yiyverai. 8idrrp rani sa6np rrju rohirc/au Kvpiri-
    Tarov rpwroXcpoo5v, xai pfrixovuw ahjs oi xtxrr]p&oc rh &An, and
    see also Ib. c. 17. $ 4; iv. 13. $ 7 ; and Nic. Eth. viii. 10. 6.


rip ybp np;ntv noXrrriatr.
The Same as the kipa grohrcia (0 4), i. e. the Republic of Plato.








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