NOTES, BOOK ir. 9. 8.5
,,hi& the Andrians were concerned. It is unlikely that Aristotle
have used the archaic word n*v%pra for +r%irca or ovcruirra.
For this use of the word ddpLa cP. C. 10. $5, xa'l r6 yc ripxaiov iKdXauv
oi .t&ovcr 0; $ib'hta 2XX' Jvspta, xa6dxcp oi Kpljrfs, 5 Kai GijXov o"rcThe event to which Aristotle refers is wholly unknown to us,
though the strange expression which he .uses indicates the great
Importance of it (0"uov e'$' iauroir &qv riv xd~tv cisdAcuav).;xciPcv ihrjXU6fv.&mc ltai ratkg ~uvt~t$Xdmc&L rijv xoherciav.
'So that in this way, as well as by the venality of the Ephors,together with the royal office the whole constitution was injured.'86; yhp 74. xoAmciav njv piXhouuuv ui[cu6ac ndvra $oliXdaL rh 9. 22.
pip? +p ~6Xrog clvac Kai 8rap;vw rairrd.
The nominatives which occur in the next sentence, oi plv otv
Bouihcis, oi 82 KaXoi xdydoi, ~.r.h. show that the corresponding words
T; res xdhms are the subject of @x%cuBaL=6ci xalvra rh pip?
T~S r;d)isos BoihruBaL T~Y xohcrdav uL[cu6ac xai Grapivrcv rairal.
rdrh is to be taken adverbially with 8cap&fcv=~a~a \ raura. .I&8hov yip $ dpx$ ah1 rijs dpcrijs e'uriv. 0. 22.
Nearly the same words occur in Demosthenes, c. Lept. $ 1x9,
1'. 489, where speaking of the yrpouuia, he says, &i piv ycip /UTI rijs
2,IJfrIjs d6hou rijs soXtrcias KV~~Y ywiu6ar ped ri)v dpiov.
m6aprhGrls ydp ion Xiav. e. 23.
It is not known how the Ephors were elected. Possibly in the
Same way as the yipovrcs (vide note on $ 27 infra), which Aristotle
likewise calls sar8aproi8qr. Plato, Laws iii. 692 A, says that the
Ephoralty is +3~ +ris dqpoj~ Buvdpcos, by which he seems to
mean that the election to the Ephoralty was almost as indiscri-
minate as if it had been by lot.
As in the funeral oration of Pericles, the Spartan discipline is 9. 24.
everyxvhere described BS one of unnaturaj constraint. There was
"0 public opinion about right and wrong which regulated the lives
Of men. Hence, when the constraint of law was removed and they
\yere no longer ripxdpcvor but n*p,pYrfE, the citizens of Sparta seem