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However, let us drop these questions, because they are in fact

somewhat foreign to our purpose.

Chapter IX.

It seems too, as was stated at the commencement, that Friendship

and Justice have the same object-matter, and subsist between the

same persons: I mean that in every Communion there is thought to

be some principle of Justice and also some Friendship: men

address as friends, for instance, those who are their comrades by

sea, or in war, and in like manner also those who are brought

into Communion with them in other ways: and the Friendship,

because also the Justice, is co-extensive with the Communion,

This justifies the common proverb, "the goods of friends are

common," since Friendship rests upon Communion.