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phrase and fix its meaning. I will now add another, Plotin. Ennead. 

 3. 8. 1, Tai^ovres drj Ti]v irpcoTrjv irplv eTLX^Lpelv aTovSd^eLV el XeyoLfxev 

 Trdvra Oecopias e(j)ieadaL Kal els reXos tovto iSXeweLv, oh fxopov eWoya dXXd 

 Kal iiWoya ^(2a Kal r-qv ev toIs (^vtoIs (j>vaLV Kal rrjv ravra yev- 

 vwaav yrjv kt\. Thus rj ev tc3 Koa/jLUi 4>vaLs = i? rod k6(T(xou (pvats. In 

 Plotinus there is probably a suggestion of the common^ universal 

 <l)vaLs as manifesting itself in plant-life; but all these passages alike 

 prove that the phrase does not mean " bei der Weltordnung." 



V^ 240, 5. Fr. 2, 8i]\ol 8e Kal to. ev toIs epyots. 



Since Diels has now (V^) adopted my interpretation of these words, 

 I might allow the matter to rest there; but the observation that this 

 and similar phrases have been unduly pressed in other contexts leads 

 me to illustrate it further. Nestle, in Philol., 67, 544, writing as it 

 seems in ignorance both of Newbold's article and of mine, arrived at 

 substantially the same conclusion with myself. It would carry us 

 too far afield to consider in detail the passages which I have studied; 

 hence I will give a list of those only which serve to illustrate Greek 

 usage. It will be seen that ev tols epyoLs and ext tcov epycov are gen- 

 erally used when appeal is made to facts of common observation or 

 knowledge, as opposed to theory, argument, or unsupported statement. 

 As a matter of fact, these references are usually so general that they 

 amount to nothing but the bald assertion that observation or knowl- 

 edge confirms or contradicts the proposition in question. In verj^ 

 few cases which I have noted does the context suffice to enable one 

 to specify the particular facts to w^hich the writer affects to appeal: 

 many passages are open to different interpretations and competent 

 scholars find it difficult to agree about them. They are therefore 

 especially valuable for our purposes. See Plato, Protag. 352 A, Soph. 

 234 E, Gorg. 461 D, Repub. 396 A, 599 B, Phaedo 110 A, Tim. 19 E, 

 Legg. 679 D, Axiochus 369 A; Xenoph. Hiero 9. 3 ; Bonitz, Index Arist. 

 286=* 27 sq., 40 sq. ; Bywater, on Arist. Poet. 1453^* 17. Cp. Arist. De 

 Gen. Animal. 3. 11. 762** 15, ovdev yap eK iravTos ylveraL, Kadairep ov8' ev 

 Tols vwo TTJs Tex^^s 8r]iJ.LovpyoviJ.evoLs. Meteor. 4. 3. 381^ 10, Kal ov8ev 

 8ia(l)epet. ev opyavots rexviKols t) cjivaiKols, eav ylyvrjraL • 6td Trjv avT-qv yap 

 aiTiav Tvavra earai.. Such general references to the similarity of prod- 

 ucts of art and of nature abound in certain works of the Corpus 

 Hippocrateum. See also Hippocr. Uepl 4)vaeojv, 5 (where, after stating 

 his theory, the writer says), irepl pev ovv oXov tov TprjypaTos dpm poL 

 ravra • pera 8e ravra irpos avra ra epya rui avr<2 \6yo3 iropevdels einSel^u) 



