NOTES, BOOK 1. 8. 27
gv $U Ofv tbs ml7u;lr KW& @iw 6s O~KOVO~LK~S $pop io+.
In this sentence two clauses are compressed into one:--'one
kind of acquisition is according to nature, and this is a part of
household management.'
Qhu is equivalent to 9 Karh @uiv iml, and is best taken,
not with oixoovoprjs (Bernays) but with KqTiK.i)S, as is shown by the
use of the words infra 5 15 : &i piv TO~VVV imi ris KVL~ xarh @;mu
rois oixodpois xai rois rd~ri~oir, xai BL' $v airiw, Bjhov.
6 bri fro1 hhpxciv
Xpqpirov rpbs (a+ ciuayrtaiov KU~ xpquipov rt xoiuwuiav miicor + oiwias.
8 bri is a confused expression referring grammatically to rBor
Kqrikijs or 6s O~KOUO~LK~S pipos, but in sense to the property with
which this art of acquisition is concerned. It it needless to read
with Bernays Kd 8 bti, for the inexact antecedent is common in
Aristotle.
ahjv refers to KVT~K$ or possibly to $&is : the nominative to irlrhpxn
is either the same as to 6r6ppuI i.e. 8=~rrjpra understood from
cf8or wn)riKfr, or &pavprupbs xpqpdrov a iuri lrpbs (odv cbayrtub, the
genitive bv being substituted by attraction for the nominative
=&us imipxn Xprjpara tv iod B7pvprupdr. It must be admitted
that the words bu iuri would be better away : they read awkwardly,
and, if this were a sufficient reason for rejecting them, might be
deemed spurious.
ropi[w a64v kos Chpxn, Qv iuri Bqoavptopbs 8. 13.mhoirov 8' obezv Irc+aupivov civspdul Kciral. 8. 14.
Solon, Fr. xii. 71 Bergk. The line is also found in Theognis
227 with a slight variation, civephrrocui for iw%pciui xrirai.KtiTU y&p &rep rtai rais Whais dxvais.
A slight inaccuracy; either I) rhohy understood=rfj r&.n 70:
nAohou: or 2) rais mair rixvais may be taken to mean the subjects
of the other arts : or vaguely= in the other arts ' : or 3) rij rurrh @-
a~ rrrlrcxlj may be supplied from the beginning of the sentence.
oL& y+ amavo, &cl~~ vib&k id dXws oh &jeer 0th p+%t, 8. I&
Life, according to Aristotle, is subject, lie the arts, to a limit,
6 8; ~OG~OE dpydivov &riv olxouopdv ral noXiru&.
and requires only a certain number of implements.