Note 154 — Chapter I · Introduction

“Pheidon and others became tyrants with a kingship to start from ... those in the parts about Ionia, and Phalaris, from their offices,” Pol. VII. (V.), 1310b; cp. ibid., “through starting with power, some that of kingly office,” and ibid., “other (tyrannies) from kings overstepping their inherited positions”; VII. (V.), 1308a, “attempts at tyranny are made in some places by demagogues, in other places by dynasts, or those who hold the highest offices when they hold them for a long time.”