[57] Cousin errs a good deal in this respect. To say, as he did, ‘Give me the latitude and the longitude of a country, its rivers and its mountains, and I will deduce the race,’ is surely a glaring exaggeration.
[59] The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the Roman constitution are referred to.
[63a] Polybius, vi. 9. αὔτη πολιτειῶν ἀνακύκλωσις, αὔτς φύσεως οἰκονομία.
[63b] χωρὶς ὀργῆς ἢ φθόνου ποιούμεηος τὴν ἀπόφασιν.
[63c] The various stages are σύστασις, αὔξησις, ἀκμή, μεταβολὴ ἐις τοὔμπαλιν.
[68] Polybius, xii. 24.
[69a] Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.
[69b] He makes one exception.
[69c] Polybius, viii. 4.
[71] Polybius, xvi. 12.