2. Despotikē (‘of a master’), with some such noun as archē (‘rule’) to be supplied here and (in the plural, archai) after ‘three’ in the next sentence. In the case of ‘matrimonial’ (gamikē, ‘to do with marriages’), and ‘paternal’ (teknopoiētikē, ‘procreative’), Aristotle gropes for words. He lacks an adjective for a husband’s authority over his wife and for all their relationships in general, including the sexual, and for the relationship (mainly of authority) of both parents to their children, not only of the father (for which he could have used patrikē); cf. I xii. For once, a Greek did not ‘have a word for it’.