Book 15
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GNAEUS MATIUS, a learned man, in his Mimiambics properly and fitly coined the word recentatur for the idea expressed by the Greek a)nai eou=tai, that is it is born again and is again made new. The lines in which the word occurs are these: Frag. 9, Bährens. E'en now doth Phoebus gleam, again is born (recentatur) The common light to joys of mortal men. Matius too, in the same Mimiarmbics, says edulcare, meaning to sweeten, in these lines: Frag. 10, Bährens.
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In what words the philosopher Aristotle defined a syllogism; and an interpretation of his definition in Latin terms.
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ARISTOTLE defines a syllogism in these lines: Topic. i. 1, p. 100. 25. A sentence in which, granted certain premises, something else than these premises necessarily follows as the result of these premises. The following interpretation of this definition seemed to me fairly good: A syllogism is a sentence in which, certain things being granted and accepted, something else than that which was granted is necessarily established through what was granted.
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The meaning of comitia calata, curiata, centsriata, and tribulta, and of concilium, and other related matters of the same kind.
