ARISTOTLE 



642a ^ ^ ^ 



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OLTTeKXiVaV ol (f)LXoGO(f)OVVT€£ .) 



AeiKTeov 8* ovrojs, olov on eari ixev rj dvaTTVorj 



TOvSl x^P^^y 'TOVTO 8e ytVcTat 8ta raSe ef dvdyKrjs, 



7j 8* dvdyKTi ore /xev orjfjLalveL on el eKeZvo eorai 



TO ov eveKa, ravra dvdyKT] eorlv {ourcos')^ ^X^^^> 



35 ore 8' on eonv ovroj? e^ovra Kal Tre^u/cora* to 



depfJLov yap dvayKaZov efteVat /cat irdXiv elaievai 



dvTLKpovov, Tov 8' dipa elapetv tovto S* 17817 



642 b dvayKalov ionv, rod ivros 8e Oepfiov dvnKOTrrovros 



iv rrj ipv^eL rov OvpaOev depos rj etooSos^ /cat 17 



6^080?. o fjLev ovv rporros ovrog 6 rrjs ixeOoSov, 



/cat rrepl (Lv hel Xa^elu rds alrlas, ravra /cat 



rotavrd eonv. 



5 II. AafjL^dvovorL 8* eVtot to /ca^' eKaarov, 8t- 



atpovfjievoL ro yevos els hvo hia(j}opds. rovro 8' eoTt 



rfj piev ov pdSiov, rfj he dhvvarov. ivlojv yap eorai 



^ ovTcos supplevi. 

 * 17 eiGoSos om. pr. E. 



" " Goodness," or " virtue," is one of the chief topics 

 discussed by Socrates in the Platonic dialogues. Cf. 

 Aristotle, Met. 987 b 1, " Socrates busied himself about moral 

 matters, but did not concern himself at all with Nature as 

 a whole." 



'' I have not attempted, except by one insertion, to straigh- 

 ten out the text of this confused account, which looks 

 like a displaced note intended for the paragraph above 

 (ending " realized," p. 77). If it is to remain in the text, it 

 would follow at that place (after 642 a 13) least awkwardly. 

 For a more lucid account of the process of Respiration see 

 De resp. 480 a 16-b 5. 



* This is usually held to include Plato, on the ground that 

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