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ses amis lui promettoit inimortalité, flies it ania miex la
mani- 7/ (346c) ere desus dicte.
T. Et en ceste nianiere Tjlixes gardoit en sa femme
ou vers sa femme sa foy fermement pour lesquelez
ioialtés it recevoit equalment de sa femme.
G. Car elle liii gardoit bonne foy aussi comme it faisoit
a elle.
one could say that Circe promised Ulysses immortality
along with the safety of his friends, but that he preferred
the arrangement stated above. /7
(346c) T. And in this way Ulysses kept firm faith
in or towards his wife, for which he received from her
an equal measure of loyalty.
G. Because she kept faith with him as he did with her.
7. Ott .vii.° chapitrc ii inoustre que le niari et la femme 7. In the seventh chapter he shows that husband and
doivent estre dun courage et d'une voienté. wife should he of one mind and one will.
T. Que l'en doic tres grandctuent et mesmement
honorer chaste societe ou compaignie de homme et de
femme en nlariagc it appert par cc clue recite l'acteur en
l'oroison que fist Ulixes a Nausique ou pour Nausique.
G. Cc fu une flue de roy a laquelle Ulixes out refuge et
recours, Et elle le recuillit quant it fu pilley en la mer, si
come it fu touchie ou chapitre precedent.
T. Car it ora et pria les diex ciue it voulsissent
thinner a Nausique mari et maison et unanimité ou
concorde desiree a son man. Et non pas quelconque
unanimité, mes bonne.
G. Car si comine dit Tulles, La premiere lay d'amisté est
que nous ne denianclons a nos amis fors choses honestes
Prima lex anlicicie est Ut ab arnicis honesta petiamus.
T. Car cue nieisme disoit que nul plus grant hien ne
est en gens que cluant le mari et la femme sunt concordables
en volenté en gouvernant la maison.
G. Et cc est scion l'Escripture qui dit que .iii. choses
sunt approvees devant Dieu et devant les hommes: concordes
de freres, amour de prochains et homme et femme
d'un consentement et clime volenté. Apres it declare quelle
unanirnité ou concorde it doivent avoir.
T. Item, it appert apres par l'acteur, cc est Honierus,
/ (346d) que it lie be pas unaninhtté ou concorde clue
le inari et la femme ont ensemble laquelle est faicte vers
malvés services ou vers malveses operations, mes celle
qui est justement conjointe en courage et en prudence.
C. Car scion cc qu'il appert par Ic .xvi.° chapitre du
.Vi. e d'Ethiqucs, vertu moral ne peut estre sans prudence ne
prudence sans vertu morale.
T. Et cc signifIe que les manes (loivent gouverner
la maison par volentés.
C. Concordables en hien; car concorde en mal ne est
pas vraie concorde et durable et est contraire a bon
gouvernement et a vraie amisté. Et ne est pas permanente
iie durable, si conime it appert par le .Vi. e chapitre du .ix.
d'Ethiques. Apres it met les hiens et les profis qui viennent
de ceste unanimité.
T. Item, Homerus disoit que quant ceste dilection et
amour est faicte moult de tristeces stint faictes as ennenhis.
T. That we should honor most highly and especially
the virtuous companionship or association of man and
wife in marriage is made evident in the poet's recital of
the prayer which Ulysses made to Nausicaa or on her
behalf.
C. She was the daughter of a king and Ulysses took
refuge with her and was aided by lien. She received him
when lie was pillaged at sea, as was mentioned in the
preceding chapter.
T. For lie prayed and besought the gods to grant to
Nausicaa a husband and a home and unanimity and
precious peace with him. And no ordinary peace, but
the best possible [Odvss. 6, l$Off].
G. Because as Tully I Cicero] says, the first law of
friendship is that we should ask of our friends only
righteous things: "The first law of friendship is to ask
only honorable things from one's friends" [De Amicitia
XIII, 44].
T. For Nausicaa said herself that there is no greater
blessing among people than when husband and wife
work together harmoniously in governing their home.
C. And this accords with Scripture, which says that
three things are well received by God and by mankind:
(1) peace among brothers, (2) love of one's neighbors,
and (3) husband and wife of single mind and will LEcclicus
25: 2]. Next he explains the kind of unanimity or
peaceful relations they should have.
T. Moreover, it becomes clear from what the author
Homer states thereafter / (346d) that he is not praising
unanimity or peaceful relations between husband and
wife which are based upon evil services or wicked deeds
on behalf of each other, but rather those relations
rightly allied with courage and prudence.
G. As it appears in Ethics VI, 16, moral virtue cannot
exist without prudence nor prudence without moral virtue.
T And this implies that the married couple will rule
their home with a common will and purpose.
G. In mutual agreement upon righteous living; because
agreement upon evil actions is not true and lasting harmony
and is contrary to good management and to true friendship.
It is neither permanent nor lasting, as is shown in Ethics
IX, 6. Next he points out the benefits and profit derived
from this unanimity.
T. For Homer used to sa y that where such happiness
and love exist the enemy is filled with sorrow.