‘Painful and destructive are, death’ (in its various forms, plur. sundry kinds of death) ‘and personal injuries’ (such as wounds or blows inflicted in an assault—δίκη αἰκίας is an action of ‘assault and battery’ under the Athenian law) ‘and all bodily suffering or damage’ (of any kind, see ante II 7. 3, and note), ‘and old age, and disease, and want of food’.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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