ARISTOTLE AND THE EARLIER PERIPATETICS vol.I by Eduard Zeller, B.F.C.Costelloe 1897

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ARISTOTLE'S WHITINGS 117
both by the express distinction
O-urepiKol \6yoL have mentioned
the Mhics, which in the Politics
he repeatedly quotes as r)6iKa, and
puts in the closest connection
with them (vid. p. 127, n. 2, of
Zeller's 2nd ed.). Bernays' theory
(73 sqq.), that the first chapter
of the seventh book of the Politic!
strikingly diverges from the usual
style of his scientific works, and
bears distinct traces of having
been extracted from a dialogue
can scarcely be supposed after
Vahlen's forcible objections
( Arist. Aufs. ii.) to be established
Zeller, however, feels bound to
agree with Bernays that by the
' exoteric discourses ' in this passage
is meant a written work of
the philosopher's which is lost to
us, and which Aristotle here seems
to follow pretty closely, for which
very reason he refers to it, and
not to the Mhics, though the
parallel passages in the latter
were closely connected with it
in meaning. — Less convincing
with regard to this, in spite of
what Bernays says to the contrary
(ibid. 38, 51 sqq.), appears
to be Polit. iii. 6, 1278, b, 30
aAAa fityv Kal rrjs apxys T0 ^s
\eyoftevovs rpSvovs [the Setrirorela,
the oUovofitKi), and the toAitikj)
apxh] f)4^ l0v SteAeTi/ • Kal yap 4v rots
S^ayrepiKois \6yois $topt£6fie6a irepl
airiiv woWdicis. These words,
looked at in themselves, might
refer not only (as Onckbn, ibid.,
suggests) to oral disquisitions,
but also (by taking the Siopifif/tefla
as the collective we ' ') to conversations
not connected with the
School or even with scjentific
philosophy. That Aristotle here
refers to the i^ar. Xiyoi, not for
'
the existence' (more correctly
that is drawn between
' distinction
' ') of different kinds
of dominion, but for the exact
limitation of their difference
(as Bernays, p. 38 asserts), cannot
be inferred from the $iopt(6-
lieBa, since this expression designates
not only the exact distinction,
the ' carefully-weighed logical
antithesis,' but any kind of
distinction whatever. If we
compare with it the perfectly
analogous use of \4yo/i.ev, Siopif-