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Book II Chapters 34–45

Chapter 34

That one should not neglect friends in misfortune and danger.

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Chapter 35

That one should not join friends in wrongdoing.

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Chapter 36

On genuine and unreliable friends.

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Chapter 37

That one should reconcile quickly with friends, bearing their faults more lightly and putting them out of mind.

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Chapter 38

That in misfortune we recognize which friends are genuine.

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Chapter 39

Precepts on friendship.

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Chapter 40

On enmity and how one should be disposed toward enemies.

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Chapter 41

On how one can benefit from enemies.

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Chapter 42

On doing good to others.

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Chapter 43

That a favor is greater when given at the right time.

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Chapter 44

On doing good in return.

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Chapter 45

That one should neither benefit the wicked nor accept benefits from them.

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1495.Wachsmuth prints deest, is missing, beneath each of the following twelve preserved headings. Their chapter texts are missing, rather than surviving but untranslated. Περιορᾶν here is to overlook or neglect friends when they need help.

1496.Συναδικεῖν with τοῖς φίλοις means to share in wrongdoing with one’s friends. The heading distinguishes friendship from complicity; its missing excerpts would have developed that distinction.

1497.Γνήσιοι are genuine friends, while ἀβέβαιοι are unstable or unreliable. The printed heading retains this contrast; no negative is inserted before genuine from the alternative mentioned in the apparatus.

1498.Διαλλαγαί are reconciliations. Ἀμνηστία here is not keeping the faults in memory, rendered putting them out of mind; the heading supplies no particular dispute or political setting. The comparative ῥᾷον, more lightly, is retained.

1499.Τοὺς γνησίους τῶν φίλων means the genuine ones among one’s friends. The title makes misfortune the occasion for recognizing them, but the missing text supplies no surviving examples here.

1500.Παραγγέλματα are instructions or precepts; φιλικά places them in the sphere of friendship. Only this general description survives here, not the individual instructions.

1501.Ὁποῖόν τινα asks what sort of person one should be in relation to enemies. The heading concerns one’s disposition toward them; the missing text does not allow its particular advice to be recovered.

1502.Ὠφεληθῆναι is to receive benefit. The title asks how such benefit is possible, but its missing excerpts cannot establish which ways of benefiting were intended.

1503.Εὐεργετεῖν is to benefit someone or do them good. The next two headings distinguish a favor’s timing from doing good in return; the present chapter’s own examples are missing.

1504.Χάρις here is a favor given, rather than gratitude received. Ἐν καιρῷ means at a fitting or opportune time; μείζων preserves the comparison, greater, without an expressed standard of comparison.

1505.The prefix ἀντι- marks a benefit returned for a benefit. The heading concerns reciprocal action, without specifying a financial repayment or a particular kind of favor.

1506.The title pairs doing good to the wicked with receiving good from them. Its arguments and examples are missing; the following surviving chapter takes up ingratitude.