POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

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NOTES, BOOK I. IO. 33


forced,
can
acquisition or appropriation of it by the labour of man, cp.


Nature is here said to provide food, but no real distinction
drawn between the provision of food by nature and the
3.
;K 6; zou'rwv, &s a&, raha Grab'riuar rpoujKri rbv ohovdpo~. 10. I.
ik 70;~~~, ' thereupon,' i. e. b roc XaBrt rraph @bcos; raika B~u~'c~uQL,
' to order them,' i. e. the things which nature gives [for the use of the
household]; or IK roL;r~v='frorn what is given by nature.' sacra
aiab'tivar, 'to set in order,' i. e. to select and arrange the things
necessary for the household.
na'l yhp drropjuricv a"u 11s. 10. 2.
1 Were this otherwise ' (as in the translation) i. e. ' if the duty of the
manager of a household consisted in producing and not in using,
then he would be equally concerned with money-making and with
medicine. And so he is to a certain extent concerned with both,
but unlike the physician or the maker of money only to a certain
extent, whereas they pursue their vocations without limit.'
Kai mpi Oyrtias. 10.3.

p'(iXiura 61, ~aedvrp clpTrar rrpchpou, Bei $&EL roiiro OmipXciv. 10.3.

About health as well as about wealth.

roko refers to some general idea, such as ' the means of life,' to
be gathered from rh ,yp$para in the preceding sentence.
aauri y+, i( 05 yiurrni, rpo+rj rd Xan6p~vdv iuriu. 10.3.
rb Xcrsdprvov=rb Xrisdptvov iv &ivy .'E 05 yiucrar, the residuum
or that from which the offspring parts, i. e. milk, white of egg, etc. :
cp. De Hist. Anim. i. 5, 489 b. 8, ibu. , i'& 0: yiyvcrar rb yivdpurvov @JV
;* poplou r+ &p,y(v, rb 6' dXXo rpo++ ri ytvup&y iuriu: and supra
c. 8. IO.
8d KaTd $;ULU <UTiU 4 XP7pUTlUTLK4 V&lU Gab TZU Kap7TiU KUi 7i)Y 10. 4.
b+WP.
Fruits and animals are the gifts of nature and intended for the
subsistence of man (cp. c. 8) : hence (ad), with some equivocation,
the trade in them is said to be natural.
6: rkw yivrrac vdpropa vopiuparos. 10. 5.
cp. Arist. Nub. 1286, rolro 6' i~6" d ~~KOE ~i Brlpi0v; Thesm. 845,

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