Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
This well known passage has given rise to some discussion in recent years, the words being the centre of the fray.
The Scholiast says
Most modern commentators have followed the Scholiast. But Mr. J. A. Stewart in the Classical Beview (Vol. vii. 3–59) follows the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in stating that the Scholiast was led astray by the proverb and that there is really no reference at all to the game ot Polis, and compares with it the passage from the Meno, 77 A.
1 Dr. Sandys is probably right in thinking that Aristotle (Pol. I. 2, 10) when he compares to the is alluding to the game of