NOTES, BOOK I. 6. 21
compelled by facts, if they think for a moment, to contradict
themselves. The language is slightly inaccurate; for it is not
they who contradict themselves, but the facts which refhte them.niy re +p Qxiv &8ixwa1 pi 8ixaiau f?vac r2V rrohipmu, rai rpdv 6. 5.
dvri[cov BouXeLcrv ob8npOs bv $ai9 710 80iAou rtac.
Either one or two distinct grounds are alleged: I>* the cause
of war may be unjust, and then the slave ought not to be a
slave ; or 2) the cause of war may be unjust, and also the slave,
being a Greek, ought not to be a slave.
8i&cp airoLs ob @oLXovrai X;yw 80;Xous, 6AAA ro3s @ap@cipous.
Cp. Xen. Hell. i. 6. 8 14, KEXCU~WW TGU &p,udxmv drro8doBai xal
~06s Mpevpuaious OCK &#~p [6 KaXXi~par~8nr] iavroc yr 8p:pxowos 068iva
‘EAAjvwv *is TA E‘K&ou BUVUT~U ~V~~TO~LU~~~VUL, and Plat. Rep. v. 469
B, C, where Plato indignantly prohibits Hellenes from becoming
the owners of other Hellenes taken in war.Bmcp tj ~c08/*rou ‘EX& $qui. 8. f.
Theodectes was a younger contemporary, and, according to
Suidas, scholar of Aristotle. During the earlier portion of his
life he had studied rhetoric under Isocrates, and is said by
Dionysius to have been one of the most famous of rhetoricians.
His works are often quoted by hjstotle, e.g. Rhet. ii. 23, 1399
a. 7, rrapd8ccypa E‘K roc ~OKP~TOUS TO; ~EO~~KTOU, is rroiov kppdv $u&-
KW ; rlvas &irv 06 rcrlpqxeu, 2jv 4 mdhrs uopica; Nic. Eth. vii. 7. 8 6,
ob yhp c~ Tis iqup~v .ai impfia~~wouiv <aoviv jmiirar 4 xvriiv,QlXoXr<qs hB roc +(OS ?rdqypEvor, and in several other passages.
See Bonitz.6OU/-LUUTdV, dXXh Kal UwOpOVlKdV, Ci dYTlT~~V~V, &mfp 6 ~EO8&nn~&W %s? TOkO h&yoUiv, 068CVl AX’ (^4) Kill KUKi$Z 8iopi{wor Th 6. 8.
aoiiAov xai AtiBcpov.
‘When they speak of Hellenes as everywhere free and noble,
they lay down the principle that slave and free are distinguished
by the criterion of bad and good.’
- 82 $&is WXirru p2v +oh0 rroisiu woM&u~p oir p’woi 8ivarai. 6. 8.
Not ‘nature sometimes intends this and sometimes not,’ for