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The possibility of doing wrong with impunity is greatest when the parties themselves answer to any of the foregoing descriptions; and if not, (in the next degree), when they have friends, or servants and followers, or associates of these kinds; for these circumstances and capacities make it possible for them (διά, the cause, the power is due to these) to do the things (this applies specially to the πρακτικοί), and to escape either detection or punishment.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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