POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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296 A RIS TO TLE 'S POLITICS.
Nic. Eth. x. 6. 9 6); and so means to means, whereas 8,,y,;;
and uxohj are ends in themselves. The idea of 'culture,' ini-
plying a use of the intellect, not for the sake of any further end,
but for itself, would so far correspond to Giayoyi.




    1. $v yhp oZourar Grayoyju &ai ri)v cXcuBc'pwv, iu rahu T~TTOUULV.
      e'v T[I;T~, SC. rfj c'v T$ uxoXfj Gtayo)?j.
      s4nouuiu, sc. a+ or music. 'They reckon music in that class of
      intellectual enjoyments which they suppose to be peculiar to freemen.'





    1. dXh' obv p;v lurr raXe7u :ai 6aira BaXciy.
      The line is not found in our Homer. There is no doubt that
      in the original BaXflqv is to be taken with 6aim; but it is probably
      quoted by hristotle in reference to the Muse Thalia : and rahriv
      erlX;lv is said in the same way as Kahlouucu LiorGbv in the following
      quotation.



  1. I I.^4 yhp POUULK\ 7O;TO 7TOlc; 6ihOV.
    i.e. 'the fact that the ancients included music in education
    proves thus much, that they considered it a noble part of
    education ';-they would not have included what mas purely
    utilitarian.

  2. I. oi 61 2khvfs ra6rqv piv oix +aprov r+ dpapriau, B?piBBcrs 6' 6rcpyi-


'The Lacedaemonians do not run into the error of spoiling the

[aural rois advors, Bs roih rpbs LivGpiav p&um uup+ipov.

frames of their children, but they spoil their characters.'




    1. c? rc KO; ~pds rahqv, oC8i roiro :&upiuKouuiv. oir~ yup Iu rob n"hXors
      +is ok' iai riv iBu;v dpip rjv rbGpiav dKoXoveoim-w rois dypiordroir,




'And even if they train with a view to courage they do not
attain to it; for courage is not to be found in brutal but in mild
and lionlike natures, whether (the comparison is made) of animals
or of barbarians.' Cp. Plat, Rep. ii. 375 and Aristotle's Criticism
on this passage in the Politics vii. 7. $Q 5-8.

6Xhh pichXou rois {pcporipo~~ Ka'r XEOVT~;~~ULU q&urv.

4.3. riv +crportK~v ;auirv.
Not ' of Epirus,' which would be wholly disconnected from the
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