[226] Generally speaking ἔθος is the habit, ἦθος the moral character generated by habit. The former is Aristotle's ἐνέργεια, the latter his ἕξις.
[227] I have adopted, it will be seen, the suggestion of Wyttenbach, "τῷ λογισμῷ mutandum videtur in τὸν χαλινόν."
[228] Sophocles, "Œdipus Tyrannus," 4, 5. Quoted by our author again "On Abundance of Friends," § vi.
[229] Reading with "Reiske," ἐξάγεται πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμεῖν τὰ αἰσχρά.
[230] In the "Chrysippus" of Euripides, Fragm.
[231] Compare Romans viii. 19.
[232] "Odyssey," xii. 168, 169.
[233] This line is from Simonides, and is quoted again in "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xiv.
[234] "Iliad," vii. 93.
[235] Reading with Reiske, εἰς δύο.