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These friendships are also between superiors and inferiors, for

which reason parents are not merely loved but also honoured. The

principle of Justice also between these parties is not exactly

the same but according to proportiton, because so also is the

Friendship.

Now between Husband and Wife there is the same Friendship as in

Aristocracy: for the relation is determined by relative

excellence, and the better person has the greater good and each

has what befits: so too also is the principle of Justice between

them.

The Fraternal Friendship is like that of Companions, because

brothers are equal and much of an age, and such persons have

generally like feelings and like dispositions. Like to this also

is the Friendship of a Timocracy, because the citizens are

intended to be equal and equitable: rule, therefore, passes from

hand to hand, and is distributed on equal terms: so too is the

Friendship accordingly.