y ... (_op. cit._, vol. IV, p. 138). Special attention is
drawn here to the intimate association of the system of government
and the calendar, analogous to the ancient Mexican system.

"The number of inhabitants an ideal state should contain and their
numerical organization were evidently subjects of supreme interest
to Greek statesmen and philosophers. The great work by Aristoteles
(384-322 B.C.) on Politics, 'according to Grote,' was based on a
collection made by himself, of 158 different constitutions of
states, which collection has, unfortunately, been lost." "The
purpose of comfortable subsistence for which commonwealths are
instituted, requiring a minute subdivision of labor," Aristotle
says, that "in this particular view, the more populous the community
its end will be the more completely attained.... All things
considered he declares in favour of what would be now deemed a very
small commonwealth, consisting of 15,000 or 20,000 citizens...."

"In his 'Book of Laws' Plato intended to delineate a more
practicable scheme of government than that of his first.... His two
republics nearly agree in form, though they differ in magnitude; the
first containing one thousand and the second five thousand and forty
men bearing arms.... In his second republic he equalizes estates but
leaves population unlimited.... A regulation directly the reverse of
this is introduced by one of the most ancient writers on the subject
of politics, Pheidon of Corinth, who limits population, but does not
equalize possessions.... The republic, planned by the architect
Hippodamus, consisted of ten thousand men, divided into the three
classes of artificers, husbandmen and soldiers. The territory he
likewise divides into three portions: the sacred, destined for the
various exigencies of public worship; the common, to be cultivated
for the common benefit of the soldiers; and the private, to be
separately appropriated by the husbandmen. His laws were also
divided into three kinds...." (Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, John
Gillies, LL.D., London 1804).

The knowledge that a republic was actually planned on the scheme of
three-fold division naturally suggests the possibility that the
Sicilian coat of arms, the triskeles, may be a survival of a period