286 AR1.S TO TLE 'S POLZTZCS.
Cp. (though a different point of view from that which is liere
taken) ii. 9. $8 34, .35 : 'Although the Lacedaemonians truly
think that the goods for which they contend are to be acquired by
virtue rather than by vice, they err in supposing that these good?
are to be preferred to the virtue which gains them.'
- infi 6i price rf ciyaoh Taka, Kai T+J 6?rdhaumv r+ ro;rov T+ T&u
CiprrSv, *ai kr 81' air+, +aurpbv ZK ro;row, wirr (^62) 6th rivov &rot,
rovro si eropqr;ou.
The construction of the sentence is as follows : ;?rei 62 +aurpbu iK
roirov pica [c~var] ~h ciyaeh ravra Kai r+ d?io'hauurv riv rohrou 4 r+
ri)~ dprrtv [sc. $olK&V ij 7;ohcpiKi)v xpijurv understood from drb~nutrt~]
?i& 62 introduces the apodosis which is resumed in ~O&O 84
dprriru goes back to Bid rrvor dpmjs in the previous sentence.
iu6~xemr yhp GrqpaprqKivai Kai rbv Xdyov rijs Pchr$rqs tnoGucos, Kd
621 C'8iv dp~ios 4XOat.
The meaning of ixBn1 is simply trained ; ' whether for good or
evil depends on the sense given to 6polor. Either I)" ' in the same
i,e. a mistaken way'; or 2) 'all the same'=' nevertheless.' The first
is most in accordance with the context Grqpaprqxiuai Ea1 rbv hdyou.
The Kai is needlessly bracketed by Bekker in his 2nd edition.
I For even reason (which we might least expect to err) is not
infallible.'
KQ'~ Sri [ai dpcrai] fiui 6r' atrjv [SC. T+ rairou dndhavurv].
ecop rlTiov.
15, 7.
- @WfpbU 6; TOki YF ?7phW p&, Ka6%ifp & rok &b9, &s^6 y&fUtE 677'
6pxijs C'uri Kai sb rfbs d?rd r~vos dpxjo aAAou si~ou~' 6 61 hdyos ?ip?U Kd
6 YO% r;ls +Guros rihos.
I) *The connesion is as follow: 'We have to consider whether
men are to be trained by reason or by habit : Thus much is clear
-that there is a succession of means and ends : every birth having
a beginning and every end having a beginning in some other end ;
and the end of nature being reason and intelligence.' That is to
say: 'In every birth there are previous elements and in like
manner in the end or intellectual perfection of human nature other
antecedents, such as education, are implied, which from other
points of view are themselves ends.'
- @WfpbU 6; TOki YF ?7phW p&, Ka6%ifp & rok &b9, &s^6 y&fUtE 677'