is interest.

[5] {oukoun}. "This, then, is my major premiss: the dumb animal..."
(lit. "the rest of animals").

[6] {ta kunidia} possibly implies "performing poodles."

[7] {te gnome... te glotte}, i.e. mental impression and expression,
"mind and tongue."

[8] Or, "to run round and round and turn heels over head." Al. "dive
for objects."

[9] "Logic, argument." Or, "a creature more compliant; merely by a
word demonstrate to him..."

[10] Cf. Plat. "Rep." 591 C.

[11] See Pater, "Plato and Platonism," "Lacedaemon," p. 196 foll.

[12] See "Cyrop." passim.

[13] {ergastersi}, Xenophontic for the common Attic {ergatais}. See
Hold. ad loc. for similar forms, and cf. Rutherford, "New
Phrynichus," 59.

[14] Cf. Aristot. "Oecon." i. 5 (where the thesis is developed
further).

XIV

Soc. Well, then, Ischomachus, supposing the man is now so fit to rule
that he can compel obedience, [1] is he, I ask once more, your bailiff
absolute? or even though possessed of all the qualifications you have
named, does he still lack something? [2]

[1] Or, "that discipline flows from him;" al. "he presents you with
obedient servants."

[2] Lit. "will he still need something further to complete him?"

Most certainly (replied Ischomachus). One thing is still required of
him, and that is to hold aloof from property and goods which are his
master's; he must not steal. Consider, this is the very person through
whose hands the fruits and produce pass, and he has the audacity to make
away with them! perhaps he does not leave enough to cover the expenses
of the farming operations! Where would be the use of farming the land by
help of such an overseer?

What (I exclaimed), can I believe my ears? You actually undertake to
teach them virtue! What really, justice!

Isch. To be sure, I do. but it does not follow therefore that I find
all equally apt to lend an ear to my instruction. However, what I do is
this. I take a leaf now out of the laws of Draco and again another out
of the laws of Solon, [3] and so essay to start my household on the path
of uprightness. And indeed, if I mistake not (he proceeded), both those
legislators enacted many of their laws expressly with a view to teaching
this branch of justice. [4] It is written, "Let a man be punished for
a deed of theft"; "Let whosoever is detected in the act be bound and
thrown in prison"; "If he offer violence, [5] let him be put to de