See "Meno," p. 72, A.

Omitting ἕτερα, which Reiske justly suspects.

Reading πρῶτον with Wyttenbach.

As in the story in "Gil Blas" of the person who, after eating a ragout of rabbit, was told it was a ragout of cat.—Book X. chapter xii.

As to Amœbeus, see Athenæus, p. 623. D.

"Iliad," xvi. 167.

Generally speaking ἔθος is the habit, ἦθος the moral character generated by habit. The former is Aristotle's ἐνέργεια, the latter his ἕξις.

I have adopted, it will be seen, the suggestion of Wyttenbach, "τῷ λογισμῷ mutandum videtur in τὸν χαλινόν."

Reading with "Reiske," ἐξάγεται πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμεῖν τὰ αἰσχρά.

"Odyssey," xii. 168, 169.