Kitap 3
4.7
Really, Socrates, cried Nicomachides, I should never have thought to hear you say that a good business man would make a good general.Come then, let us review the duties of each that we may know whether they are the same or different.By all means.
4.8
Is it not the duty of both to make their subordinates willing and obedient?Decidedly.And to put the right man in the right place?Cyropaedia I. vi. 20.That is so.I suppose, moreover, that both should punish the bad and reward the good.Yes, certainly.
4.9
Of course both will do well to win the goodwill of those under them?That is so.Do you think that it is to the interest of both to attract allies and helpers?Yes, certainly.And should not both be able to keep what they have got?They should indeed.And should not both be strenuous and industrious in their own work?ibid. 8.
4.10
All these are common to both; but fighting is not.But surely both are bound to find enemies?Oh yes, they are.Then is it not important for both to get the better of them?
