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[9] It is only quite at the close of the treatise that Aristotle

refers to this, and allows that [Greek: theoria] constitutes the

highest happiness because it is the exercise of the highest

faculty in man the reason of thus deferring the statement being

that till the lower, that is the moral, nature has been reduced

to perfect order, [Greek: theoria] cannot have place, though, had

it been held out from the first, men would have been for making

the experiment at once, without the trouble of self-discipline.

[10] Or, as some think, "many theories have been founded on

them."

[11] The ἰδέα is the archetype, the εἶδος the concrete embodying

the resemblance of it; hence Aristotle alludes to the theory

under both names, and this is the reason for retaining the Greek

terms.

[12] The list ran thus-

[Greek: to peras to apeiron | to euthu to perisson to artion | to

phos to en to plethos | to tetragonon to dexion to aristeron | to

aeremoun to arren to thelu | to agathon ]

[13] Plato's sister's son.