Kitap 2
3.12
It is also evident that those are mild whose condition is contrary to that which excites anger, as when laughing, in sport, at a feast, in prosperity, in success, in abundance,πλήρωσις: lit. filling up. The reference may be to the fulfillment of one's desires, or to repletion in the matter of food (L. and S.), which seems less likely; in fulness of content (Jebb). and, in general, in freedom from pain, in pleasure which does not imply insult, or in virtuous hope. Further, those whose anger is of long standing and not in its full flush, for time appeases anger.
3.13
Again, vengeance previously taken upon one person appeases anger against another, even though it be greater. Wherefore Philocrates,Opponent of Demosthenes, and one of the pro-Macedonian party. Impeached for his share in the disastrous Peace of Philocrates, he went into exile and was condemned to death during his absence. when someone asked him why he did not justify himself when the people were angry with him, made the judicious reply, Not yet. When then? When I see someone accused of the same offence; for men grow mild when they have exhausted their anger upon another, as happened in the case of Ergophilus.Ergophilus failed in an attack on Cotys, king of Thrace, while Callisthenes concluded a premature peace with Perdiccas, king of Macedonia. For although the Athenians were more indignant with him than with Callisthenes, they acquitted him, because they had condemned CalIicrates to death on the previous day.
