Book 1
7.30
And things which are more praiseworthy, since they are nobler. And in the same way things which are more highly honored,Things of which the prices are greater, price being a sort of worth (Jebb). for honor is a sort of measure of worth; and conversely those things are greater evils, the punishment for which is greater.
7.31
And those things which are greater than what is acknowledged, or appears, to be great, are greater. And the same whole when divided into parts appears greater, for there appears to be superiority in a greater number of things.Or, superiority over a greater number of things. Whence the poet says that Meleager was persuaded to rise up and fight by the recital ofAfter πεῖσαι all the MSS. except A Paris have λέγουσαν. If this is retained, it must refer to Meleager's wife Cleopatra, who persuaded him . . . by quoting. As the text stands, the literal rendering is: the poet says that (the recital of the three verses) persuaded. The passage is from Hom. Il. 9.592-594 (slightly different). All the ills that befall those whose city is taken; the people perish, and fire utterly destroys the city, and strangers carry off the children.
