1. Hē koinōnia politikē: ‘the association that takes the form of a polis (state)’.

2. Politikos, ‘statesman’, in the sense explained in the introduction to this chapter.

3. The formulation is adequate as far as it goes; but Aristotle’s point is that a king and a statesman differ sharply in kind: a king is set apart in some fundamental respect from his subjects, while a statesman is the equal of his; cf. I vii and xii.