[3] In doing this he had two objects, to prevent their stopping in the city and make them stay scattered about the country, and to cause them to have a moderate competence and be engaged in their private affairs, so as not to desire nor to have time to attend to public business.1
1 This policy will be found expressed in general formulae in Aristot. Pol. 1311a 13, Aristot. Pol. 1318b 6, Aristot. Pol. 1319a 30, Aristot. Pol. 1320b 7.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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