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| タイトル | ： 第29回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2004/03/20(Sat) 16:47 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@nifty.ne.jp> |
第29回テキスト
---はじめ---
Certainly not; for he thinks that a friend ought always to do
good to a friend and never evil.
You mean that the return of a deposit of gold which is to the
injury of the receiver, if the two parties are friends, is
not the repayment of a debt, --that is what you would imagine
him to say?
Yes.
And are enemies also to receive what we owe to them?
To be sure, he said, they are to receive what we owe them,
and an enemy, as I take it, owes to an enemy that which is
due or proper to him --that is to say, evil.
Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to
have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he really
meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is
proper to him, and this he termed a debt.
That must have been his meaning, he said.
By heaven! I replied; and if we asked him what due or proper
thing is given by medicine, and to whom, what answer do you
think that he would make to us?
---終わり---