96 ARZSTOTLE’S POLZTZCS.
- :pi 8; Irapaxhjuca^75 h7KWViK5 nohirtiv rh p;v VUbViTLO r& ;raipi;v
rois +ti&rioLs, r$v 6i r6v iitarbv Kal rrrrdpov dpx+ TOIS i+dpls.. TOLE
61 $avrXeis wai n)v yfpoudav &v&hoyov sois (uti BuutXr;crr #ai y;pouuiv.
Yet there could hardly have been much resemblance between
the common tables of guilds or societies in the great commercial
city of Carthage, and the ‘ camp life ’ of the Spartan syssitia; or
between the five ephors of Sparta and the hundred and four coun-
cillors of Carthage: or between kings who were generals and
elected for life at Sparta and the so called kings or suffetes who
seem to have been elected annually and were not military officers
at Carthage, but are distinguished from them, infra 9.
- :pi 8; Irapaxhjuca^75 h7KWViK5 nohirtiv rh p;v VUbViTLO r& ;raipi;v
- 0; XC;pOV.
Is to be taken as an adverb agreeing with the sentence, ‘ and this
is an improvement.’
- 0; XC;pOV.
- KO\ frlrcov 6i roir paaihcis pjre KO& SA airb rbai os, pq8i roiro
rd rvxdv, r: re c?ia$i‘pov C‘K roirov afptrois piihhov 4 KaO’ jhrdav.
The true meaning of this rather perplexed passage is probably
that given in the English text which may be gathered from the
words as they stand. The cor-
rection of Bernays, rqdv, tis 6; yrpouuiav & nXouuLw aIpcrois is too
great a departure from the RISS. Lesser corrections, ~i ai, dXX’ tl
71, rlri have some foundation in the Latin Version, but are unneces-
sary. t? rc is to be read as two words and answers to &rt, as
6raQllpov does to pv8i TOGTO ri) ruxdv. ‘It is a great advantage that
the kings are not all of the same family and that their family
is no ordinary one, and if there be an extraordinary family, that the
kings are elected out of it and not appointed by seniority.’
- KO\ frlrcov 6i roir paaihcis pjre KO& SA airb rbai os, pq8i roiro
With Gim#dpov supply rb +OS id.
- 4, pey6Ydxov yhp ~6pi0i KaOrmBrts, bv &&is tur, prydha $Xrinrouui xal
:@ha+av $Sq riv rdhiv riv r&v Aardaipoviov.
He elsewhere speaks of the Spartan monarchy in a somenhat
different spirit (iii. 14. $ 3, 15. $ I ff.). The praise here given to
the elective Monarchy or Consulate of the Carthaginians at the
expense of the Spartan kingship is considerably modified by the
fact mentioned in $ IO, that they not unfrequently sold the highest
offices for money.