καλλίω γάρ] § 24. Virtue is the only true object of ‘praise’, ἔπαινος. Introd. Appendix Bk. I, c. 9, p. 212 seq. ὧν αἱ τιμαί κ.τ.λ.] ‘and things (especially actions) may be regarded as ‘greater’, or superior in respect of their power or effect, of which the honours or rewards are greater; because honours and rewards are as it were (may be considered) a kind of valuation, estimate of the value, of a thing, ἀξία, which will afford a comparison, or measure of the comparative value of two things: and the opposite acts which involve a higher penalty, are superior in a sense, more important and effective. ζημίαι, not ‘losses’, ἀποβολαί, as it has been understood, but ‘penalties’, directly opposed to τιμαί ‘rewards’. So Victorius.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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