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[44] This is untranslateable. As the Greek phrase, [Greek: echein

logon tinos], really denotes substituting that person's [Greek:

logos] for one's own, so the Irrational nature in a man of

self-control or perfected self-mastery substitutes the orders of

Reason for its own impulses. The other phrase means the actual

possession of mathematical truths as part of the mental

furniture, i.e. knowing them.

[45] [Greek: xin] may be taken as opposed to [Greek: energeian],

and the meaning will be, to show a difference between Moral and

Intellectual Excellences, that men are commended for merely

having the latter, but only for exerting and using the former.

BOOK II

[1] Which we call simply virtue.

[2] For nature must of course supply the capacity.

[3] Or "as a simple result of nature."

[4] This is done in the Sixth Book.