The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks

by Basil Edward Hammond

[217] Arnold's Thucydides, note to VIII. 97. 1.

[218] Grote, History of Greece, octavo edition, vol. VI. p. 152, cabinet edition, vol. VIII. p. 267.

[219] Thucydides V. 26.

[220] Xenophon, Hellenica I. 7. § 1, and II. 1. § 16.

[221] Xenophon, Hellenica II. 1.

[222] Xenophon, Hellenica II. 2.

[223] Xenophon, Hellenica II. 3.

[224] Especially on the famous occasion when Alexander did not dare to put his general Philotas to death till he had been condemned by the assembled chieftains and warriors. Grote, part II. chapter XCIV.

[225] The latest event referred to in the treatise is the murder of king Philip in 336 B.C. Aristotle died in 322 B.C.

[226] The classification is set forth in the Politics III. 6, 7. Welldon, pp. 116-120. In III. 6. 1 Aristotle defines a polity as "an ordering or arrangement of a state in respect of its offices generally and especially of the supreme office."