[5] See the words of the Latin league, Dionys. Hal. vi. 95, contrasting strongly with the original collection of autonomous villages described by Strabo, v. 229, κατἁ κώμας αὐτονομεῖσθαι.
[6] The influence of the great city in centralising the villages and making a state possible was in Greece philologically stereotyped by the fact that for city and state the language had only one word, πόλις. The city was the state in the same sense that the head is the body, for without the head no living body could be.
[7] ὁ στρατιωτικὸς βίος πολλὰ ἒχει μέρη τῶς ἀρετῆς.—Aristot. Pol. ii. 9. St. Paul also frequently in the Epistles, and Clemens Romanus (Oxon. 1633, p. 48) refers to the military profession as a great school of manly virtue.
[8] Spalding’s Italy, ii. p. 284.
[9] On Method in Political Science.