ARISTOTLE 



644 a 



avdyKT] TToXkas elvat jir] vtto jxiav Siaipeaiv. dXXa 

 ixrjv ttXclovs ye rod avrov ovk ecrrtv vtto fxiav 



10 St;^oro/xtav etvai, dAAa jLttav Kara filav reXevrdv. 

 a)€rT€ dSvvarov otlovv Xa^elv tujv Kad^ cKaarov 

 t,a)(jjv Slxol hiaipovyLevovs. 



IV. *A77oprjcr6t€ S' dv ng Sto. tl ovk dvcoOev eVt 

 ovofian ifjLTrepiXa^ovTes dfia ev yevog dfjL(j)a> Trpoa- 

 riyopevoav ol dvOpajnoL, o Trepiix^i rd re 'ivvhpa 



15 Koi rd TTTrjvd tojv ^cowv eart ydp eVta TrdOrj 

 KOLvd Kal TOVTOLs [/cttt ToZs dXXoLS t^ois aTTaGLv]} 

 dAA' dpLCjos 6p6d)s SnopLoraL rovrov rov rpoirov. 

 oua fiev ydp StacfyepeL tojv yevchv KaO^ VTrepox'rjv Kal 

 TO) [xdXXov Kal rjTTOVy^ ravra VTret^evKrai ivl yevei, 

 dua 8' e;!^et to dvdXoyov, x^^jpis' Xeyco 8' olov opvis 



20 dpvidos hia(f)ip€L rw fiaXXov tj Kad^ vTrepox^jv (to 

 fiev ydp fxaKpoTTTepov to he ^paxvTTTepov) , IxOves 

 8* opviOog TO) dvdXoyov (o ydp eKeivco TTTepov, 6a- 

 repo) XeTTLs). tovto 8e TTOielv IttI TrdoLV ov pdhiov 

 rd ydp TToXXd ^cpa dvdXoyov rauro TreirovOev. 



'Ettci 8' ovGiaL jjiev elui rd eoxo-Ta etSr], /card 



25 8€ TavTa Td^ TO clSos dhid^opa (olov TtWKpdTT)?, 

 KopLGKOs), dvayKaXov ^ rd KaOoXov virdpxovTa 



^ seclusi Ogle docente. 



^ sic Rackham : to fiaXXov /cat to (to om. Y) ■^ttov vulg. 



^ Kara 8e ravra ra Peck : ravra 8e Kara vulg. 



** This paragraph has been corrupted by confusing inter- 

 polations, which I have bracketed in the Greek text and 

 omitted in the translation. With this passage cf. Met. 

 1037 b 27—1038 a 30. 



'' On this point see D'Arcy W. Thompson, Growth and 

 Form, esp. ch. 17, and the same author's paper Excess 

 and Defect ; or The Little More and the Little Less, in 

 Mind, xxxviii. (N.S.) 149, pp. 43-55. See also infra, 

 661 b 28 ff., 692 b 3 ff . ; and Introduction, p. 39. 



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