38 ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS.
“.+nuts, who made his foot-pan into a god, as he had himself
been made into a king, cp. Herod. ii. 172. The connexion is
as follows : ‘Among equals, where one rules and another is ruled,
we make an artificial distinction of names and titles, but this is
not the case in the relation of husband and wife, because the
distinction between them exists already and is permanent.’
- B’ ;ppfU b& VpbS Ti, 6jXU TOhOV hfl T;V rp&OU.
Resuming the words in $ I ~UVU~K~S piu ?~OXLTLK~)S, and adding
the distinction that the relation between husband and wife, unlike
that between ruler and subject in a sohmio, is permanent (id).
This permanence of relation between husband and nife makes it
rather an ‘ aristocratical ’ than a constitutional ’ rule, and in Nic.
Eth. viii. 10. 4 j and Eud. Eth. vii. 9. 4 4 it is so described.
- ai TOV BXhwv ri)v ro~oI;rov r&wv.
Supply +ET$ TLS before TGU 2XXou-assisted by o;6rp;a in the
Cp. infra $ 13, UKUTOT~~OE 6’ oLefls, oCGd TGV WXov
The words TGV r0106rou are used inaccurately ‘of such
following clause.
TfXUlT&.
habits,’ meaning the habits which have virtues like these.
- dvrly~q p;v pm+u 6p$m+ovr dprrjr, rnirtp 6’ ctvar Gta+opds, Goscp
‘ Both require virtue, and of these virtues there will be different
kinds since the natural subject differs [from the natural ruler] ’;
or, with Bcrnays, corresponding to the difference in the subject
classes,’ cp. infra clause 7. But why only in the subject?-a
difficulty which seems to have been felt by those copyists or
editors who, supported by Moerbeke, insert dp~dvrwv Kd before
dp~op~‘vou. Better: ‘There will be differences of virtue in the ruling
and subject classes, similar to. those which [we have already noted
to exist] in the natural subject.’
Kd TI%’ +u’U€l dpXOJh&WV.
- Kai +Oh €;&E i#Q’7pU ncpi TiV xi..
I) ‘And this is immediately suggested by the soul’: or a) ‘And
this, without looking further, is the leading or guiding principle
in the soul.’ There is a rule of superior and inferior, not only
in states, but in the soul itself.
The verb @&rai in this passage is taken passively by Bonitz,
