[273] That is, "to move" and "to cut" express an action as perfect as "having moved" and "having cut."
[274] As Aristotle says, Categ. ii. 7.1.
[275] Plotinos proposes to divide verbs not as transitive and intransitive, but as verbs expressing a completed action or state, (as to think), and those expressing successive action, (as, to walk). The French language makes this distinction by using with these latter the auxiliary "être." Each of these two classes are subdivided into some verbs expressing an absolute action, by which the subject alone is modified; and into other verbs expressing relative action, referring to, or modifying an exterior object. These alone are used to form the passive voice, and Plotinos does not want them classified apart.
[276] In Greek the three words are derived from the same root.
[277] See i. v.
[278] See iii. 6.1.
[279] Categ. iii. 14.
[280] For this movement did not constitute reaction in the mover.
[281] That is, the Greek word for "suffering."
[282] A Greek pun, "kathexis."