POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

2 54 ARISTO7ZE'S POLITICS.

Yet this is only true of the goods of the soul in their most

general sense; a man cannot have too much justice, or a.isclom,

or intelligence, but he may have too much memory or too mu(),

imagination, and perhaps even too much courage or liberalit,.,

He cannot have too much of the highest, but he may haye loo

much of the lower intellectual and moral qualities. Cp. Ethic>

ii. 6. 17 where Aristotle, after defining virtue as a pcndrqp; is

careful to explain that it is also an d~pdrpi.

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   8. O*hus rr S,Xov i)s dKoXou8riv r$ljnopru TT)V GrdBrucv r+v dpiurqv f';~~
      iipdypnros nph WXqXu Karh T+ Cnrpoxhv, jvmp c?A+ Bidmaoiy
      Gv r$op& abrbs c&ac GtaBiurcs rahac.
      'If
      one thing is superior to another, the best state of that thing ij
      superior to the best state of the other.' But an awkwardness is
      caused by the insertion of Bcdurantv, after the relative $vmp in
      apposition \vith &rcpoX<v. 'According to the excess or interval
      which exists between the different states of things.' The subject
      of cfiqqjr is the antecedent of bv, i. e. iipdypnra, supplied from
   
   
   
   

Beklrer, following the old translation ' sortita est,' reads rEhyc

The change makes no red

The general meaning of this passage is simple enough.

~K~UTOU xptiypanx.

for &q$r in his second edition.

difference in the sense.

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   9. in 6; rijs +uxijs brwru rnlrn ii;+UKfV aipcric Kai Be; ndvras aiptiaani
   
   
   
   

Cp. Xatth. svi. 26, Ti yhp ;@cXqB{usrar iidpw?ios r'hv rtv &PV

robs r4 r$povo3vras, dhX' OAK bcivov &Kev nju $tux+.

CXOU XCPB+S$ T+ 62 +&v nbro; [qpd9j ;

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   10. pdprvpc^74 Of4 Xpopivors.
       Cp. Kic. Eth. vii. 14. $ 8, ALA 6 &As dri piav Kai c'lnXjv xaiP
       i~ourju. oh yhp pdvou Kcvjurhs EI~T~V ivlpysra ri~h <ai dKrvquias Kai $04
       pl;Xhou r'v 4pfp;q r'urb $ iv Kcv{ufL: also Ib. 2;. 8. 7, &urc 4 70; eto;
       ivLpyoia, paKaptdrqn Btar$ipovua, Bcopqrr~$ iv +: and Metaph. 5'.
       c. 7, 1072 b. 26, rj ybp voi ;vipyc~a [o<, C'KC~VOS 62 (SC. 6 866s) 6 ;ViP
       yrra' ivipyria 6; < KaB' adrjv iKsivov S;$ cipiuq Kai dtGtoe.
   
   
   
   


2. I 1, ixxjpwov 6' ;mi Kai rtv u;riv x+OV a+woV Kai n~cv cGSar'pova 4~
   6plu.n)~ fbac Ka'c spcirrouuav KaAh.