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And they are angry
with friends, if they neither speak well of nor treat them well, and in an even
greater degree, if they do the opposite. And if they fail to perceive that they
want something from them, as Plexippus1 in Antiphon's
tragedy reproached Meleager; for failure to perceive this is a sign of slight;
since, when we care for people, these things are noticed.2
1 Plexippus was the uncle of Meleager. The allusion is obscure. It may refer to Meleager giving the skin of the Calydonian boar to Atalanta, which his uncle wanted. One of Antiphon's tragedies was named Meleager （T.G.F. p.792）.
2 Literally, “for the things which （= the persons whom） one respects, do not escape notice.”
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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