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Actions of Lust are wrong actions done with pleasure, Wrong

actions done with pleasure are more justly objects of wrath,[*]

Such as are more justly objects of wrath are more unjust, Actions

of Lust are more unjust

[*] [Greek: hubpis] is introduced as the single instance from

which this premiss is proved inductively. See the account of it

in the Chapter of the Rhetoric referred to in the preceding note.

[16][Greek: ton dae lechthenton]. Considerable difference of

opinion exists as to the proper meaning of these words. The

emendation which substitutes [Greek: akrataes] for [Greek:

akolastos] removes all difficulty, as the clause would then

naturally refer to [Greek: ton mae proairoumenon] but Zell

adheres to the reading in the text of Bekker, because the

authority of MSS and old editions is all on this side.

I understand [Greek: mallon] as meant to modify the word [Greek:

malakias], which properly denotes that phase of [Greek: akrasia]

(not [Greek: akolasia]) which is caused by pain.