This is one of the many expressions which seem to imply that this treatise is rather a collection of notes of a viv voce lecture than a set formal treatise. “The table” of virtues and vices probably was sketched out and exhibited to the audience.

Afterwards defined as “All things whose value is measured by money.”

We have no term exactly equivalent; it may be illustrated by Horace’s use of the term hiatus: “Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?” Opening the mouth wide gives a promise of something great to come, if nothing great does come, this is a case of [Greek: chaunotes] or fruitless and unmeaning hiatus; the transference to the present subject is easy.

In like manner we talk of laudable ambition, implying of course there may be that which is not laudable.

An expression of Bishop Butler’s, which corresponds exactly to the definition of [Greek: nemesis] in the Rhetoric.

That is, in the same genus; to be contraries, things must be generically connected: [Greek: ta pleiston allelon diestekota ton en to auto genei enantia orizontai]. Categories, iv. 15.

“[Greek: Deuteros plous] is a proverb,” says the Scholiast on the Phaedo, “used of those who do anything safely and cautiously inasmuch as they who have miscarried in their first voyage, set about then: preparations for the second cautiously,” and he then alludes to this passage.