Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Plutarch
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Aufidius, the rival of Manlius, and this happened, either because he
escaped notice, or nobody took any trouble about him, and he lived to old age, in some barbarian village, in poverty and contempt. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 101: If this is obscure, the fault is Plutarch's. His word for Fortune is [Greek: tuchê] Ïá½»Ïη which he has often used in the Life of Sulla. The word for Spontaneity is [Greek: to automaton] Ïὸ αá½ÏόμαÏον, the Self-moved. The word for Elemental things is [Greek: ta hupokeimena] Ïá½° á½Ïοκειμένα. The word [Greek: hupokeimenon] á½Ïοκειμένον is used by Aristotle to signify both the thing of which something is predicated, the Subject of grammarians, and for the Substance, which is as it were the substratum on which actions operate. Aristotle (_Metaphys._ vi. vii. 3) says "Essence ([Greek: ousia] οá½Ïία) or Being is predicated, if not in many ways, in four at least; for the formal cause ([Greek: to ti ên einai] Ïὸ Ïá½¶ ἦν εἶναι), and the universal, and genus appear to be the essence of everything; and the fourth of these is the Substance ([Greek: to hupokeimenon] Ïὸ á½Ïοκειμένον). And the Substance is that of which the rest are predicated, but it is not predicated of any other thing. And Essence seems to be especially the first Substance; and such, in a manner, matter ([Greek: hulê] á½Î»Î·) is said to be; and in another manner, form; and in a third, that which is from these. And I mean by matter ([Greek: hulê] á½Î»Î·), copper, for instance; and by form, the figure of the idea; and by that which is from them, the statue in the whole," &c. I have translated [Greek: to ti ên einai] Ïὸ Ïá½¶ ἦν εἶναι by "formal cause," as Thomas Taylor has done, and according to the explanation of Trendelenburg, in his edition of Aristotle _On the Soul_, i. 1, § 2. It is not my business to explain Aristotle, but to give some clue to the meaning of |
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