[{188}] 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.
[{190}] The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the Roman constitution are referred to.
[{193a}] Polybius, vi. 9. αυτη πολιτειων ανακυκλωσις, αυτη φυσεως οικνομια.
[{193b}] χωρις ορyης η φθονου ποιουμενος την αποδειξιν.
[{193c}] The various stages are συστασις, αυξησις, ακμη, μεταβολη ες τουμπαλιν.
[{197a}] Polybius, xii. 24.
[{197b}] Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.
[{198a}] He makes one exception.
[{198b}] Polybius, viii. 4.
[{199}] Polybius, xvi. 12.