‘VOTES, BOOK 111. 4. ‘I7
The Sentence is awkwardly expressed and is perhaps corrupt.
The change of 6pr$drcpa into Zp#o FTspa (Bernays) would give much
the same meaning with rather less difficulty, (’since the tiyo must
different things, and the ruler and the ruled are not required
]earn the same things’), because rbv ~pxowa Ka‘r TAU ~PX~~CUOU have
not then to be taken in two senses, collective and distributive.
It might be argued in.favour of Bernays’ emendation that dp$hpa
mny ]lave crept in from the dpQdrrpa in the next line; and against
it that the two words &#m hrpa, the one having a collective, the
o:l~er n distributive sense, are not happily combined.
The
tiiread of the argument is resumed at the words rahy y&p Xlyop~
in $ 14.4 II seems to be intended as a summing up of $$ 8-10.&ST1 Vhp dpX$ SfUlTOTIK~ K.T.X. 4.11.
is a digression introduced for the sake of distinguishing the dpx;
8€mOTlK7) to which the preceding remarks do not apply, from the
<i,& TOXLTLK$ to which they do.
?mi yiip refers back to r1u dpxoma, ‘ We are speaking of the ruler
nho is also a subject ; for we must remember that therc is a rule of
the master over his slave with which we are not here concerned.’Z
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616 rap’ iviois 06 prrrixov oi 6qpioupyoi rA rdaibu L;pxiu, rpiv 6ipov 4. I 2.
1 ycvlubai rbu Cuprou.
616, referring to 6dp~r06&b~s and the various kinds of menial
duties in xhich the artisan class nere employed, ‘ Because of their
smile and degraded character.’
6pXOp;VoV 0i;ros. 4. 13.- e. those who (like household servants) are subject to the rule
of a master.
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(1 PI TOTE XpEias xhptv air+ rppbs abro’w, 06 y&p ;ri K.T.X.
- ‘For if men practise menial duties, not only for the supply
Of their own occasional wants, but habitually ’ (indicated by ror;),
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is no longer any difference between master and slave,’ i. e.
the natural distinction of classes is effaced. It has been proposed
to read d+~ ,&, rdrf ai, instead of TAU p‘dv, TAU 6C, ‘for then the case
no longer occurs of a man being at one time master and at