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G. Car ii leur desplaist de la prosperité de ces niariés et
en ont envie.
T. Et en ceste concorde stint faictes moult de joies as
amis.
G. Apres ii met tin autre profit.
T. Item, les ainis oent plus volentiers cest acteur
Honierus comme disant choses vraies, cc est assavoir
que quant le mari et la femme stint en concorde vers
choses tres bonnes, ii est neccessaire que les amis de l'un
et de l'autre soient a concorde ensemble.
C. Mesmenient quant as choses qui resgardent ces mariés
et nieisme en autres choses stint les amis plus concordablcs
pour l'amisté qui est entre ces niariés. Apres ii
met le tiers profit.
T. Item, pource que par cc ii sunt fors, il stint terribles
a leur // (347a) ennemis et profictables a leur
amis.
C. Car quant il sunt, eulz et leur amis, Time partie et
d'autre uniz par concorde ii en stint plus puissans: Quia
virtus unita forcior est se ipsa dispersa. Apres il met les
malz qui viennent du contraire.
T. Et se ii sunt a descort, les amis seront differens et
non concordables. Item, il convendra que les manes
soient enfermes, cc est a dire fiebles et peu puissans.
Item, eulz sentiront mesmement les maulz qui viennent
de tele discorde.
C. Apres il conclut en declarant queue unanimitC ii
doivent avoir.
T. Et le acteur, cc est assavoir Honierus, en ces
choses ici commande manifestement que les niariés
deveent ou deffendent tin a l'autre et evitent ensemble
choses qui sunt malveses et non chastes ou villaines.
C. Le mari ne doit souffnir a la femme faire nulle tele
chose tie la femme au man qu'eIle puisse.
T. Ft doivent servir et aministrer a eulz nieisme indifferentenient
jouxte leur povoir choses qui soient
chastes et honestes et qui soient justes.
C. Car sans diference et sans faintise, chescun doit
mettre peine a son povoir que l'autre face bien.
8. En Ic Z,jjje c/ia pitre ii moustrc en especial aucunes
choses en quo' les ;nariés doivent esire d'une n.'olentô
et a queue fin.
T. Et premierement, les manes doivent estudier a
avoir toute cure de leur parens.
C. Car si comme ii fu (lit 011 .xv.e et ou derrenier chapitres
de Ic vjil.e et ou tiers chapitre du .ix,° d'Elhiques, /
(347b) len est tenu a sus parens 1 par sus tous soubs Dieu.
T. Ft quc le mari cure des parens de sa femme non
pas moms que des siens et aussi Ia femme des parens de
son man.
G. Le mari est plus tenu a scs propres parens que a
ceulz de sa femme. Mes ce non obstant, ii dolt moustrer
G. They are grieved to observe the prosperity of the
married couple and are jealous of them.
T. While their friends derive great pleasure.
G Next he mentions another advantage.
T. Their friends also agree that Homer spoke the
truth—namely, that when husband and wife are agreed
about the good things of life, their friends must also
achieve mutual agreement.
C. Especially with respect to those matters which concern
the couple and even with respect to other matters
the friends of each are more compatible with one another
because of the friendly relations that exist between husband
and wife. Next he states the third advantage.
T. Because they are strong in their unity // (347a)
they are formidable to their enemies and useful to their
friends.
C. For when they and their friends are harmoniously
united together they are stronger because of their unity:
Because strength united is stronger than strength dispersed."
Next he points out the disadvantages of the
opposite situation.
T. But if they are an uncongenial couple, their
friends will likewise be contentious and incompatible.
The husband and wife will thus be weakened, that is,
enfeebled and of little power. And thus the couple will
suffer most of all frorn the evils that derive from such
contentiousness.
C. Next lie concludes with an anal ysis of the kind of
unanimity that should exist between husband and wife.
T. Manifestly, the author, that is, Homer, is here
dissuading or prohibiting or urging the couple to avoid
evil, dishonorable or base actions.
C. The husband must not allow the wife to perform any
such act and the wife must do likewise in so far as she is
able.
T. They must succor and assist each other impartially
as far as possible in righteous, just and honorable
deeds.
C. For frankly and without partiality each one must
try his best that the other should do right.
8. In the eighth chapter he stresses certain matters in
which the married couple should he of single will and
to what end they should be so.
T. First of all the married couple must strive to take
all possible care of their parents.
C. For as stated in Ethics VIII, 15 and 19 and IX, 3,
(347b) after God, one's first duty is to his parents.
7'. And the husband must care for his wife's parents
no less than for his own and likewise the wife must care
for her husband's parents.
G. The husband is more closely bound to his own than
to his wife's parents; nevertheless, he should appear to