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 346 Journal of Philology. It is strange that all the commentators should have neglected a passage in the Eudemian Ethics (a work, if not by Aristotle, yet almost certainly by an early Peripatetic, probably Eudcmus) which explains the whole difliculty as clearly as if it had been expressly written in illustration of it. 'E^el be iXu rpds, kaf dperfjv, koto, to XPW 1 H' 0V > Kara to r)8v, tovtuv be eKao-rqs bvo biacpopal' (n* pev yap naO' vnepox^v rj be kclt laorqTa eartv eKacrrn avrcov, to be biKaiov to trepi avTiis k tcov ap.(pio-^T]TT]0'avTcov drjXov) e'v pev 777 Kaff vTrepox^v diovrai to dvdXoyov ov% cJcravTcoj, aXX' 6 pev virepe'x aiV dveaTpappevcos to dvdoyov y cos avTos npos tov eXarra>, ovtu> to napa tov eXarrovos yivopevov npbs to irap' avTov, biaviu)v ovtoj avpfiaivei. 'Ot6 pev yap dpidpa tov taov p^erexovaiv, ore be y<o. Et p.ev yap lo~ov dpiBpat elorjveyKev dpyvpiov, Icrov na t<u uro) dpidpoj 8taXau./3aVoua-ti', el be prj lo-ov, dvdXoyov. 'O 8* vTzepexop-evos rovvavTiov orpe(p(i to dvdXoyov, Kai Kara btdperpov av^evyvvaiv*. The mention of diametrical conjunction both here and in the chapter under consideration naturally suggests an identity of subject. Now, in the passage last quoted, the author is speaking of the controversies arising between those who have contracted a league of friendship for mutual assistance. The superior claims, by virtue of his superiority, to receive a greater share of ben el it from the connexion, a claim which he supports by the parallel of a joint-stock partnership, in which he who has invested the largest capital receives a proportional share of the profits. The proportion between the friends and their respective services is thus inverted (dveo-Tpapp-evois). As A is to B, so must be B'fl service as compared with A's. The inferior, on the other hand, insists on a direct proportion, by which the larger gain falls to the less productive partner (icard bidperpov avevyvvo-iv). Thus, as A's wealth exceeds B's, so should A's services to B exceed B's returns to Af. might be strengthened if we could inquiry, winch cat) only bo alluded 1<> clearly determine the authorship of here, might form an interesting Books v. vi. vii. of the Nioomaohaao for a separate paper. Kthies, corresponding word for word + The phrase 77 /card Stdperpov <ru- with Books IV. V. VI. of the Eudemian. fcuts signifies the union in eirohafcgl This coincidence can only be explained of opposed, not of rimilaf terms in the by the supposition that a lost portion of proportion; i.e. of the higher number one treatise has been supplied from the in one ratio with the lower in the other, MSS. of the other. But which is the not of the two higher or two lower
 * Eth. Eud. VII. 10. This argument lender and which the borrower? This