NOTES, BOOK I. 8. 25
r+s T~s jambvar rai +V aiprutv T+ SO~V.
rhs +m)D(IE t.7.h. For their convenience and the obtaining ’ ;
he words may also be regarded as a hendiadys, ‘ for the oppor-
tunity of obtaining.’ro&uv. Sc. Kaplro;, &~ov, understood from &o$dya, eap..$riya.According to the common notion the life of the hunter precedes 8.6.
that of the shepherd; Aristotle places the shepherd first, apparently
because the least exertion is required of him. The remark arises
out of the previous sentence, in which he divided the lives of men
according to the facility with which they obtained food. Cp. Mill,
Polit. Econ., Preliminary Remarks.BrlXarrav rorau’qv. 8. 7.
Sc. uup$ipouuau vpbs dkitiav.a6r&$vrov. 8.8.
Either I)* ‘immediately obtained from the products of nature’Cp. note on c. 1, 5 2.=;E a&js 6s $&cas, or a)=at-roupydv, ‘by their own labour.’
rbu ivstimarov ,8iou. 8.8.
Bernays reads b&iarfpov without MS. authority, but there is
no need to make any change. The meaning is that they supple-
ment the extreme poverty (Weiurarov) of one kind of life by
another: the two together give them a comfortable subsistence.uX@h?)K0roU€i. 8. IO.
cp. De Gen. Anim. ii. I, 732 b. I 0, rib 8 dua/p~v rh hop UKuhqKO-. To& The term ‘vermiparous’ is not strictly correct: for all
animals are either viviparous or oviparous. But Aristotle appears
not to have been aware that the larva of the insect comes from an
egg.
r$v TOG Ka’hovpivou y(ixa~rop +hv.
A pleonasm common in Aristotle : cp. tj is cirpi&os, roc mip~os,
T& ~arwlvlov, $~ULS, Hist. Animal. passim. (See Bonitz, Index
A% p. 838 a. 8 ff.)*m mi rWa (+a r~v i~ephav X+v, rh $v ;icup. xp~ a riu tu mi
- IO.
dl”i@S a+OU &l Kd y€W$W&s O;&W T6 T€ $Wh TiU {*V &fKW 8. 11.