[173] Plato, Alcinous, 31; this is opposed by Aristotle, Nic. Eth. iii. 2.6.

[174] Aristotle, Eud. Eth. ii. 10.

[175] Aristotle, Mor. Magn. i. 32; Nic. Eth. iii. 6.

[176] Aristotle, Nic. Eth. iii. 4.

[177] Arist. de Anim. iii. 10.

[178] de Anim. iii. 9.

[179] Magn. Mor. i. 17.

[180] de Anim. iii. 9.

[181] This Stoic term had already been noticed and ridiculed by Numenius, 2.8, 13; 3.4, 5; Guthrie, Numenius, p. 141. He taught that it was a casual consequence of the synthetic power of the soul (52). Its relation to free-will and responsibility, here considered, had been with Numenius the foundation of the ridicule heaped on Lacydes.

[182] Nic. Eth. x. 8.