And what's around Democracy [Control by the People],
however, engenders Final Tyranny for All [a Tyrant's Total Control]:
καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν δημοκρατίαν
δὲ γιγνόμενα τὴν τελευταίαν τυραννικὰ πάντα,
Control by Wives,
particularly around the household
γυναικοκρατία
τε περὶ τὰς οἰκίας,
gives birth to reports
against Husbands
ἵν᾽ ἐξαγγέλλωσι
κατὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν
and to undisciplined Slaves
for this same reason.
καὶ δούλων ἄνεσις
διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν:
Neither Slaves nor Wives, in fact, can turn on
Tyrannies.
οὔτε γὰρ ἐπιβουλεύουσιν οἱ δοῦλοι καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες
τοῖς τυράννοις,
They're just as much blessings to the days
and necessarily blessings to the minds
of the Tyrannies
as they are to the Democracies.
ὐημεροῦντάς τε
ἀναγκαῖον εὔνους εἶναι
καὶ ταῖς τυραννίσι
καὶ ταῖς δημοκρατίαις:
from the Politics (Bekker page 1313b, between and around lines 35 -40)