,VOTES, BOOh- l,FI/. 2. 357
,,ntemplation are to be transferred to the sphere of politics. the
l,arnIlel which he sets over against them in this passage being only
life of the tyrant and the life of the private individual. At 4 16
he opposes the state in activity to the state in isolation; and this
is perhaps the half-expressed contrast which is floating before his
mind.ch7fp r'V laKE8aipOUL Kd KP6.g TphS TOLE TOi;pUUS UUWTirnKTclL UX&V 2. 9.
$ Tf nnt8da KU~ ri) r&v v6pv nijOoo.
Cp. Plato's Laws, bk. i. 630 ff., where the principle that the laws
of nations should have some higher object than success in war is
energetically maintained, and for the approval of these sentiments
by Aristotle, supra, ii. 9. $ 34.KlI8hcp & KapX$duc +a& 7i)V iK TSV KPiKWV K6UpOV hap@VfLU. 2. IO.
It may be instructive and is certainly amusing to remark that
YXam de Aloerbek either reading Kpiuwu from ~ph~, ' a lily,' or
confusing K~~VCOV and K~~KWU! translated ' lilia.';V %i ZK;&lLs Oh Gtiju TiufLU r'u ;OPT$ TLVi UK6+UY Tfpl+fp&CUOU T+ 2. I I.
p?txUR dTf KTRyKdTl S0h;pLOV.
Cp. Hdt. iv. 66, where it is said that once in every year the
governor of each district mixes a bowl of wine from which those
only may drink who have captured enemies.
The accusative &+OY mp~#~pdprvou may be regarded as an
accusative absolute, assisted by the verb of cognate signification,
' when the cup was brought round.'Here is a beginning of national and international morality. The 2. 12-18.
question whether the contemplative or the practical life is the superior
was discussed in Nic. Eth. x. C. 7, but entirely with reference to the
individual. In this passage an analogous question is raised con-
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