Book 2
7.4
Since then it is evident on what occasions,Reading ὅτε; others read οἷς, by whom. for what reasons, and in what frame of mind a feeling of benevolence arises, it is clear that we must derive our arguments from this—to show that the one side either has been, or still is, in such pain or need, and that the other has rendered, or is rendering, such a service in such a time of need.
7.5
It is evident also by what means it is possible to make out that there is no favor at all, or that those who render it are not actuated by benevolenceἀχαρίστους: the word generally means ungrateful, and so Jebb takes it here: and to make men ungrateful.; for it can either be said that they do, or have done so, for their own sake, in which case there is no favor; or that it was mere chance; or that they acted under compulsion; or that they were making a return, not a gift, whether they knew it or not; for in both cases it is an equivalent return, so that in this case also there is no favor.
