man knows that this, that, and the other person are fathers of
children subject to his authority, he must perforce deal by them even
as he desires his own child to be dealt by. And, if a boy chance to
have received a whipping, not from his own father but some other, and
goes and complains to his own father, it would be thought wrong on the
part of that father if he did not inflict a second whipping on his
son. A striking proof, in its way, how completely they trust each
other not to impose dishonourable commands upon their children.[3]

[1] Or rather, "members of his household."

[2] See Plut. "Lycurg." 15 (Clough, i. 104).

[3] See Plut. "Moral." 237 D.

In the same way he empowered them to use their neighbour's[4]
domestics in case of need. This communism he applied also to dogs used
for the chase; in so far that a party in need of dogs will invite the
owner to the chase, and if he is not at leisure to attend himself, at
any rate he is happy to let his dogs go. The same applies to the use
of horses. Some one has fallen sick perhaps, or is in want of a
carriage,[5] or is anxious to reach some point or other quickly--in
any case he has a right, if he sees a horse anywhere, to take and use
it, and restores it safe and sound when he has done with it.

[4] See Aristot. "Pol." ii. 5 (Jowett, i. pp. xxxi. and 34; ii. p.
53); Plat. "Laws," viii. 845 A; Newman, "Pol. Aristot." ii. 249
foll.

[5] "Has not a carriage of his own."