NOTES, BOOK 12. 8. 73
and strife, and make it at unity with itself. This will come to
if the passions of the youthful soul are trained by endur-
ance in pleasures and pains and conformed to moderation;-if
tile amount of wealth is small, and the revenue derived from the
cultivation of the soil ;-if the virtuous fill the offices in which
virtue is needed, the skilful those in which skill is needed, the rich
tl10se in which lavish expenditure and profusion are needed ; and to
all these, when they have filled in due manner their proper offices,
&e honour be assigned. Now the causes of virtue are three:
fear, desire, shame. The law creates fear, moral habits, shame
(for those who have been trained in right habits are ashamed to
do wrong); reason implants desire. For it is a motive power, at
once giving the reason and attracting the soul, especially when
it is combined with exhortation. Wherefore also we must pre-
pare for the souls of the young guilds and common meals, and
places of living and meeting together, military as well as civil,
and the elders must be harmonized with them, since the young
want prudence and training, the old, cheerfulness and quiet en-
joyment.’Aristotle’s account of the character and attainments of Hippo-
damus may be compared nith the passage in the Lesser Hippias of
Plate(?) (368 h foll.), in which Hippias is described as acquainted
n it11 every conceivable art and science. The personal description
of Hippodamus also bears an odd resemblance to the statement of
hqenes Laertius about Aristotle himself--spauhbs r$v @w$u...
dhht Kai iUXUOUKfhjF. ,. $v, KU; plKpdppTOP, &dj-si re hurjpy XpIpevosThe quantity of the name Hippodhmus, though unimportant,
1s a somewhat difficult question, In Aristophanes (Knights 327)
the a is long, yet if the name be a compound of 8jpos, it is hard to
give any meaning to it. It has been thought that Aristophanes
ha5 altered the quantity for the sake of the joke.
hIention occurs of the ‘InnoBdprtos dyoph at the Piraeus in Andoc.
de JIyst. Q 45, p. 7, Xen. Hell. ii. 4. Q I I, and Dem.(?) adv. Timoth.
8 22, p. 1190. A tradition is preserved by Strabo (xiv. 653, h
$aq/u), that the architect of the Piraeus was the architect of the
8amuXiocs Ka‘r roup+ (v. 1. Q z init.).