Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

by R. W. Church; Dante Alighieri

[169] "Quantum ad habitum."

[170] "Passionare."

[171] "Quantum ad operationem."

[172] Eth. v. 2.—(W.)

[173] Rhetoric, i. 1.—(W.)

[174] "Perseitas hominum" = "facultas per se subsistendi."—Ducange.

[175] "Secundum totum."

[176] A compilation from the Arabians, or perhaps Aristotle or Proclus, which, under various names, passed for a work of Aristotle, and is ascribed by Albert the Great to a certain David the Jew. It is quoted in the twelfth century, and was commented on by Albert and Thomas Aquinas. Vide Jourdain, Recherches sur les traductions d'Aristote (1842), pp. 114, 184, 193, 195, 445; Philosophie de S. Thomas (1858), i. 94.

[177] Cf. Arist. Magna Moral. i. 1: "It would be absurd if a man, wishing to prove that the angles of a triangle were equal to two right angles, assumed as his principle that the soul is immortal."—Witte.

[178] Cf. Purgatorio, xviii. 22.—Witte.