BOOK V.
The first sentence implies that ne are approaching the end of 1. I.
the treatise; but see Essay on the Structure of the Aristotelian
Kritings.;rr 62 uorqpiar rives Kal xotvi Ka’c xopis Endurqs ti&, ZTL 82 St& T~VW 1, 1.
BV pbhrma U~~OLTO T&V YOXLT&V &K~PT~],
The latter of these two clauses is bracketed by Bekker in his 2nd
edition as being a mere repetition of the preceding. If spurious
it is probably a duplicate incorporated from some other ancient
form of the text, not a gloss. But Aristotle often draws over-
subtle logical distinctions, and in striving after completeness he
may easily have written uorqphr T~VCS and 6th rivov BV UdI[OLTO, with
little or no difference of meaning between them.66 62 rp3rov iiroXa@riv fiv dpx+. 1. 2.
The last words may be either I) taken adverbially; or 2)* may
be the accusative after broXa,&iv: I) ‘We must in the first place
begin by conceiving’ or z)* ‘ we must in the first place conceive
our starting point to be.’76 8i~arou KO~ SA Kar’ dvdioylav bov. 1. 2.
In Bekker’s 2nd edition rcai is altered to ctvar without MSS.
authority. The sense thus obtained would coincide with the
conception of justice in the Kic. Eth. v. 3. 5 8.
But the same thought is less accurately expressed by the text.
The mi here, as elsewhere in Aristotle, may be taken in the sense
of id esf. Cp. Nic. Eth. i. 6. 8 2, d 82 Ka6’ aid Ka’r 4 ohla 7rpb’~~pou
@h 705 npds 74: Metaph. iv. 14, 1020 b. 3, ~h ddvr)7a
~WW~I where sh &iyra = ~b pa8qp~~d. And it may be further
argued that the more general form of words is better suited to this