P. 145, l. 4.
The consequentia is this:
There are cases both of principles and facts which cannot admit of reasoning, and must be authoritatively determined by νοῦς. What makes νοῦς to be a true guide? only practice, i.e. Experience, and therefore, etc.
P. 145, l. 22. This is a note to explain ὑγίεινα and εὐεκτικὰ; he gives these three uses of the term ὑγίεινον in the Topics, I. xiii. 10,
| ὑγίεινον λέγεται | τὸ μὲν ὑγίειας ποιητικόν, | |
| τὸ δὲ φυλακτικὸν, | ||
| τὸ δὲ σημαντικὸν. |
Of course the same will apply to εὐεκτικὸν.
| P. 146, l. 11. | Healthiness is the formal | cause of health. | |
| Medicine is the efficient |
See Book X. chap. iv. ὥσπερ οὐδ' ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ὁ ἰατρὸς ὁμοίως αἰτία ἐστὶ τοῦ ὑγιαίνειν.
P. 146, l. 17. φρὸνησις is here used in a partial sense to signify the Intellectual, as distinct from the Moral, element of Practical Wisdom.
P. 146, l. 19. This is another case of an observation being thrown in obiter, not relevant to, but suggested by, the matter in hand.
P. 146, l. 22. See Book II. chap. iii. and V. xiii.
P. 147. l. 6. The article is supplied at πανούργους, because the abstract word has just been used expressly in a bad sense. “Up to anything” is the nearest equivalent to πανούργος, but too nearly approaches to a colloquial vulgarism.
P. 147, l. 13. See the note on Άρχὴ on page 4, l. 30.
P. 147, l. 14. And for the Minor, of course,
“This particular action is——.”
We may paraphrase τὸ τέλος by τί δεῖ πράττειν—τί γὰρ δεῖ πράττειν ἢ μή, τὸ τέλος αὐτῆς ἐστίν· i.e. τῆς φρονησέως—(Chap. xi. of this Book.)
P. 147, l. 19. “Look asquint on the face of truth.” Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici.
P. 147, l. 26. The term σωφρονικοὶ must be understood as governing the signification of the other two terms, there being no single Greek term to denote in either case mere dispositions towards these Virtues.
P. 147, l. 30. Compare the passage at the commencement of Book X. νῦν δὲ φαίνονται ... κατοκώχιμον ἐκ τῆς ἀρετῆς.
P. 148, l. 10. It must be remembered, that φρόνησις is used throughout this chapter in two senses, its proper and complete sense of Practical Wisdom, and its incomplete one of merely the Intellectual Element of it.
