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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 7, chapter 5 (search)
throwing him out of the house, used to beg him to stop when he got to the door, ‘because he only used to drag his father as far as that.’This story is developed in Robert Browning's poem ‘Halbert and Hob’ ; it is said also to occur in a German Volkslied. Again, the craftier men are, the more Unjust they are. Now the hot-tempered man is not crafty, nor is anger, but open; whereas desire is crafty, as they say of Aphrodite: Weaver of wiles in Cyprus bornThe line seems to have ended *kuproge/neos pro/polon （Bergk, cf. Hesych., K. p. proaggo/n） , ‘for the servant of the wile-weaving Cyprus-born,’ viz., Peitho, Persuasion. It is ascribed by Wilamowitz to Sappho, and the same epithet is applied to Aphrodite in Sappho, 1.2. and Homer writes of her ‘broidered girdle’ CajoleryOne of the emblematic figures embroidered on the girdle of Aphrodite, Hom. Il. 14.217