Note 162 — Chapter I · Introduction
Reading edition
Cp. Thuc. I. 17, δι’ ἀσφαλείας ὅσον ἐδύναντο μάλιστα τὰς πόλεις ὤκουν. Hermann, Staatsaltertümer5 p. 253, n. 5, notices that this passage contradicts Plato, Rep. VIII. 566e and Aristot. Pol. VII. (V.), 1313b, 1305a, which make the typical tyrant warlike. He does not realize that Thucydides is describing the tyrants of an earlier age.