Kitap 3
5.16
In all general questions, however, the essential basis is the same as in a cause or definite question. It is further pointed out that there are some questions which concern things in themselves, while others have a particular reference; an example of the former will be the question Should a man marry? of the latter Should an old man marry? ; or again the question whether a man is brave will illustrate the first, while the question whether he is braver than another will exemplify the second.
5.17
Apollodorus defines a cause in the following terms (I quote the translation of his pupil Valgius):— A cause is a matter which in all its parts bears on the question at issue, or again a cause is a matter of which the question in dispute is the object. He then defines a matter in the following terms:— " A matter is a combination of persons, circumstances of place and time, motives, means, incidents, acts, instruments, speeches, the letter and the spirit of the law.
