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[9] The introduction of the words [Greek: dia tinos] seems a mere

useless repetition, as in the second chapter [Greek: en tini]

added to [Greek: peri ti]. These I take for some among the many

indications that the treatise is a collection of notes for

lectures, and not a finished or systematic one.

[10] Suppose that three alternatives lay before a man, each of

the three is of course an object of Deliberation; when he has

made his choice, the alternative chosen does not cease to be in

nature an object of Deliberation, but superadds the character of

being chosen and so distinguished. Three men are admitted

candidates for an office, the one chosen is the successful

candidate, so of the three [Greek: bouleuta], the one chosen is

the [Greek: bouleuton proaireton].

[11] Compare Bishop Butler's "System of Human Nature," in the

Preface to the Sermons.