IIEIDEL. — ON FRAGMENTS OF THE PRE-SOCRATICS. 733 



Burnet, in liis note on Plato, Phaedo 65 D, gives a false emphasis 

 and in etVoot a false interpretation, heeause he overlooks, what is 

 obvious, that in the phrase Kal twv aWuv ivl \6yu) aTravTo^v, the 

 phrase ivl Xoyco is to be taken as emphasizing airavTuiv; and Capps, 

 on Menander, p]pitrep. 197 sq. 



Kara/jLepo}, 

 avpLov OTCO ^ov\ea6' tTnTpk-wtiv tvi Xoyco 

 eroijuos, 



wrongly takes en \6yui with eToifxos instead of oroj ^ovKead' . Curios- 

 ity, awakened by the false points made bj' scholars in connection 

 with the Aristotelian passage we are considering, led me to make 

 a collection of cases of hi \6ycp, which grew to considerable propor- 

 tions. I will not print a list here, since such collections possess no 

 value in my sight except as an examination of the context serves to 

 determine the sense of the locution in question. Suffice it to say that 

 in almost every instance the immediate context contained a compre- 

 hensive or universal expression, such as wdv, obdev, /jLvpia, etc. But 

 ipi \6yo3 does not stand alone, for there is a considerable number of 

 phrases similarly used; of these I give a few which should serve to 

 illustrate the construction. Aeschyl. P. V. 46, cos dTrXw \6yui . . . 

 oi'Siu; ibid. oOo, /Spaxet 5e /jlvOco Taura (xvWrj^Srjv jxade; il)id. 975, aTrXw 

 \6yco TTCLVTas ex^ciipo; deois; Herod. 2. 24, cos fxh vvv kv eXax'tcTTO} drjXu}- 

 aai, TTciv e'ipriTat; ibid. 225, cos 8e kv irXeoPc Xoyo) Sr^Xcoaat, oide ex^t; 

 ibid. 2. 37, pvpias cos diveiv X67C0; ibid. 3. 6, tv Kepap.Lov olvqpov api.diJ.Qi 

 Keivov ovK toTL COS X67C0 tlizelv Ibkadai; ibid. 3. 82, Ivl 8e eirn Tavra 

 (TvXXa^dvTa dTrelv; Plato Apol. 22 B, cos eTros €lireli> oXlyov avToJv awav- 

 ras; Xenoph. Mem. 4. 3. 7, cos Tap avveXovTi elireLV, ovbkv ktX.; Aniphis, 

 fr. 30, 7 Kock, diraPTes ap8po4>6voL yap eiaiv eul Xoyco. Adverbs like 

 Ifx^axo are similarly employed. After reciting this list of passages I 

 think we may be sure that in the passage we are considering Aristotle 

 merely meant to say that the procedure of Leucippus and Democritus 

 was not only exceedingly methodical {bbQ> fxaXiaTa), but also com- 

 prehensive (vrept iravTo^u evi Xoyco). Possibly those who have been 

 reading something more into Aristotle's words might receive some 

 comfort from Hippocr. ITepi ewTanrjvov, 3 (7. 438 L.), xP^^^t^^ 8i Traaat 

 iul X67C0 vrept rovrkov • (l)acri yap ktX. But the context shows that 

 eui Xoyco means "one formula of expression." Even if one should 

 insist on taking Aristotle's words as a parallel to this, it would greatly 

 affect the traditional interpretations of the passage. 



