[237] Aristotle, Politics, Bekker IV. 6. 5, 6. Welldon, pages 270, 271.
[238] Aristotle, Politics, Bekker IV. 4. 25-28. Welldon, pp. 265-267. In translating, I have taken liberties with the words but I hope not with the sense of any sentence.
[239] Aristotle, Politics III. 13. 15. Welldon, pages 140, 141.
[240] Aristotle, Politics II. 11. 5-8. Welldon, pages 90, 91.
[241] Ibid. IV. 4. 23, IV. 8. 7. Bekker. Welldon, pages 265, 275.
[242] Aristotle, Politics IV. 4. 24-26, Bekker. Welldon, pages 265, 266.
[243] For example, till 340 B.C., the richest citizens were allowed to contribute far less than their just share towards the trierarchies, which defrayed a large part of the cost of maintaining the navy; and the change to a fairer system was effected with difficulty: Grote, Part II. chapter XC.
The strong conservative tendency, which prevailed among the Athenians under their democratic constitution, was, I believe, first noticed by Mr W. Warde Fowler. There is a striking passage on the matter in his City-state of the Greeks and Romans (pages 170, 171).
[244] Hallam, Middle Ages, chapter III.: in the cabinet edition, vol. I. pages 421-423.
[245] Aristotle, Politics. Bekker IV. 5. 1-2 and IV. 6. 7-11. Welldon, pages 266-267, pages 271-272.