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<j)vXdTrovGai rds VTrep^oXds rod re ipv^ovs Kal ri^s 

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 dvdpcoTTCOV iyK€cf)aXos TrXeioTris Kal rrj? ^vXaKTjS 

 heir ai' ro yap vyporarov Kal ^et Kal xfj-ux^raL 



10 fidXicrra, to S' eVavrioj? ^xov aTTaOearepov ioriv. 

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 ixofJLevois T7J9 TTcpl rds ^Xe(j)apihas atVta?, 8td ttjv 

 ovyyeveiav avraJv, cucrre nepl rcov Xolttcov iv rols 

 OLKeloL? Kaipols aTTohoreov rrjv fiveiav. 



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15 ^orjOelas X^P'-^ €lglv, at /xev o^pves rwv Kara- 

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 elal 8* at [xev 6(f)pves errl Gwdeoei oorcov, 8to Kal 



20 SaCTUvovrat TroAAotS" dTToyrjpdaKovoLV ovtcjjs ojore 

 SelaOat Kovpds' at he ^Xe(j)apihes eTrl Trepan 

 <f)Xe^LOJV, fj yap to Seppua Trepaivei, Kal rd (j)Xe^ia 



^ epyfioLTcov scrips! : epyfxdTCJv Bekker : ipvudrcov ed itores. 



« This is one of the passages fastened upon by Bacon in 

 his tirade against the importation of final causes into physics, 

 Adv. of Learning (publ. 1605), ii. pp. 29, 30 : " This I finde 

 done not onely by Plato, who euer ancrcth vppon that shoare, 

 but by Aristotle, Galen, and others, who do vsually hkewise 

 fall vppon these flatts of discoursing causes ; For to say that 

 the haires of the Eye-liddes are for a quic-sette and fence about 



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