NOTE   ON
AIKAI AnO 2YMBOAI2N  and  2YMB0AAIAI
 

Since the note on I. 77. i was printed, the attention of
the writer has been called to an article in the first number
of the American Journal of Philology, written by Professor
Goodwin of Harvard, in which the vexed question of biKai
crvp.l36Xaiai and their relation to 8tKat dirb a-vpLJ36X(uv is once
more discussed. He explains them, not as the same with
biKai dirb (Tvp.^6X(jdv, I. e. suits brought by a citizen of one
state against a citizen of another under the rights given by
a treaty, but, like Boeckh, simply as meaning ' suits relating
to contracts' or ' business suits.' He cites three passages
from Aristotle's Politics in which the distinction appears to
him to be clearly observed :—

iii. 1. 4. ovb^ ol TCOV biKaicov /xere)(oz;res ovtcos coo-re Kat §tK7]z^
virexeiv Kal biKdCecrOai (sell. TroAtrat elari)' tovto yap virdpxei
Kal Tois dirb avp^^oXcov koivchvoxxtl.

iii. I. 10. Kat Tas biKas biKd^ovcn KaTa pLepos, olov ev AaKe-
baipiovL Tas tcov (rvp^^oXaioiv biKd^ei tcov ecpopcov dXXos dXXas.

ii. 5* II' XeycjL) be biKas re Trpos" dXXi]Xovs irepl o-vpLJ3oXaicov
Kal yj/evbopiapTvpicov Kpicreis Kal irXovcricov KoAaKeta?.

It is clear that in the first of these passages the words
dirb avpLfSoXcov refer to relations between those who are not
citizens of the same state; and o-t;/x/3oAata in the two last
passages to those who are; though the word might apply
equally to all business suits,, whether between citizens of the
same state or not.

But (i) it may be remarked that the expression quoted
from the two latter passages of Aristotle, which Professor
Goodwin cites for the first time, is not the same with that
in Thucydides, and therefore does not afford a fair basis of
argument.    There is no reason to doubt that the phrase