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" For the threefold series cf. Be gen. an. 714 a 9 ff. This 

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* " Dynamis " here is clearly the pre-Aristotelian technical 

 term. See Introduction, p. 30. "^ See De gen. et corr. chh. 2, 8. 



''In some contexts, " fluid " and " solid " seem more 

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