E3P27S1
Scholium — Part III
Latin
(not aligned in this witness)
English (Elwes 1883)
This imitation of emotions, when it is referred to pain, is called compassion (cf. III. xxii. note); when it is referred to desire, it is called emulation, which is nothing else but the desire of anything, engendered in us by the fact that we conceive that others have the like desire.
Modern English
This imitation of affects, when it relates to sadness, is called pity (on which see the scholium of P22 (E3P22S)); when it relates to desire, it is called emulation, which is therefore nothing other than the desire for something that arises in us from the fact that we conceive others similar to ourselves to have the same desire.