‘And those whom we help to secure any good for themselves (so Victorius)—provided in so doing we do not ourselves incur greater evil’. The joint efforts are a bond of sympathy, and fellow-feeling (συμπάθεια) makes men friends: but this community of feeling would be destroyed if we were to be losers by our help; for then the other's feeling would be pleasurable but our own painful.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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