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In fine then, that is involuntary which is done through

ignorance, or which, not resulting from ignorance, is not in the

agent's control or is done on compulsion.

I mention these cases, because there are many natural things

which we do and suffer knowingly but still no one of which is

either voluntary or involuntary, growing old, or dying, for

instance.

Again, accidentality may attach to the unjust in like manner as

to the just acts. For instance, a man may have restored what was

deposited with him, but against his will and from fear of the

consequences of a refusal: we must not say that he either does

what is just, or does justly, except accidentally: and in like

manner the man who through compulsion and against his will fails

to restore a deposit, must be said to do unjustly, or to do what

is unjust, accidentally only.