7. Dikaiosunē dikastikē, ‘justice in trials’, as determined by jury men (dikastai); cf. I ii, n.24.

8. Syneseōs politikēs ergon, a fine expression, literally ‘activity of insight connected with the polis’.

9. I.e. the occupations present in Plato’s ‘first’ state, and Aristotle’s additions.

10. I.e. to say nothing of other kinds of fighter.

11. Literally, ‘render leitourgiai, public services’ (cf. II x, n. 6). ‘Liturgies’ were compulsory payments by the richer citizens towards the expenses of certain public functions, e.g. of dramatic and musical festivals. In the case of the eighth part the point is presumably that to hold office is a ‘contribution’ or ‘expenditure’ of a kind, analogous to the expenditure of money by the seventh part: cf. III vi.

12. In the preceding paragraph.