740 b 



ARISTOTLE 



uvpadev, aAA' evdvs, wairep iv Toig tcov (J>vt(jl)v 

 CTTTepfiaaLv eveari tl toiovtov to (fjaivoixevov Trpoj- 

 Tov yaAa/CTtoSes", ovtcl> koI iv rfj vXrj rwv ^ojcuv 

 TO TrepcTTCOfxa Trjg crycrTacrecD? Tpo(f>ri ioTiv. 



H ixkv ovv av^Tjots tw KvijfiaTi ytVerat Sia tov 



10 ofi(f)aXov TOV avTov Tpoirov ovrrep 8ta tcJov pi^cbv 

 Tols (fiVTOLS [koL tols t,a>ois aVTOLS, otov (XTTO- 

 Avda)aLV, ck ttjs €V avTols Tpo(f)rjsj^ • rrepl Sv voTepov 

 AeKTeov /cara tovs oIkclovs tcov Xoyojv Kaipovs. 17 

 oe ScaKpLons yiyveTat tCjv fxopLOJV ovx u>s Tives 

 v-TToXafi^dvovaL, Sta to rre(f)VKevai ^ipeadai to 



15 o/xoLov Trpos TO o/xoiov {TTpos yap TToAAat? d'AAais" 

 ais" o Xoyos ovTos ex^i, Svax^p^iats, CFvp-Paivei 

 XOip''? eKaoTOV yCveadat tcov [xopuov tcov ojxolo- 

 fxepcov, oLov oaTo. Kad avTO. Kal V€vpa, /cat rd? 

 aapKas Kad aurd?, el' tis dnoSe^aiTo TavTrjv ttjv 

 aiTtav), dXX OTi to TrepiTTCopia to tov drjXeos 



20 Svvdfiei TOLOVTOV ecrrtv otov (f)vaei to t,cpov, Kal 

 eveoTL SvvapieL to. f.i6pia, evepyeia S' ovdev, Std 

 TavTTjv T7]v atTtav ytVerat eKaoTOV avTcov, Kal otl 



TO TTOLrjTlKOV /fttt TO TTaOr^TLKOV, OTav diycooLV, ov 



TpoTTOv eoTL TO pkv TTOnqTiKov TO Sc vadrjTiKov [tov 



Be TpoTTov Xeyco to a)s Kal ov Kal oTe), evdvs to 



25 jxev TTOLCL TO 8e -ndax^i. vXrjv p,ev ovv Trapejs^et to 



^ seclusi : suspicatus est Piatt : tov avrov . . . rpot^'^s om. S. 



" This phrase seems to be an interpolation, connected 

 perhaps with II. 29-31 below. 



* This commonplace of thought in Greek philosophy and 

 medicine is a pseudo-scientific form of a proverbial maxim 

 (c/. " birds of a feather "), specially alluring to the Greeks. 

 Cf. especially Hippocrates;, n. <j>vaLos ttmSlov, ch. 17 init. and 

 Jin. (vii. 496-498 Littre). See quotation \n note on 742 a 1. 



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