Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

 PROEMIUM

 BOOK ONE

 LESSON I

 BOOK THREE

 LESSON I

 LESSON II

 LESSON III

 LESSON IV

 LESSON V

 LESSON VI

 Footnotes

Footnotes

  . Aristotle Physics ii. 2. 194a21.

  . Ibid. ii. 8. 199a13.

  . Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics x. 9. 1181b14.

  . Ibid. i. 1. 1094b9.

  . The expression "domestic head" is used here to render the Latin oeconomus (oikonomos, steward or administrator of the household), for which there seems to be no exact equivalent in the English language.

  . See the preceding note.

  . The printed text reads: secundum hanc doctrinam (according to this doctrine), for which we have substituted: secundum subjectam methodum or secundum modum assignatum (according to the mode [or method] indicated). The correction appears necessitated by the Latin text of Aristotle and the Thomistic context, as well as by the general meaning of the passage.

  . Aristotle De Partibus Animalium ii. 17. 660a15 ff.; cf. iv. 6. 683a20 ff., and De Anima ii. 8. 420b17.

  . The reading dominantur (rule), which occurs in the printed text, has been changed to nominantur (are called), in accordance with the obvious meaning of the sentence.

  . The distinction between sound, voice, and speech is discussed at greater length by Aristotle in De Anima ii. 8. 419b3 ff.

  . Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics ii. 5. 1105b23

  . Reading iusti instead of ita, as the context demands.

  . Aristotle Metaphysics vii. 10. 1035b3 ff.

  . Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics ii. 1103a14 ff.

  . Reading indeterminatus instead of determinatus, as is clearly required by the Latin version of Aristotle and the context.

  . Aristotle Politics i. 2. 1252b27 ff.

  . The printed text reads insanos, which hardly seems appropriate in this context.

  . Aristotle Politics i. 13. 1259b33 ff.

  . Cf. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics vi. 8. 1141b23.

  . Cf. Aristotle Politics i. 5. 1254b25.

  . Cf. Homer Iliad ix. 648; xvi. 59.

  . Cf. Aristotle Politics i. 2. 1252a26 ff., i. 3. 1253b1 ff., and passim.

  . Cf. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics viii. 10. 1160a31 ff.