does not recognize either that or any other general term as common to all those nine Categories; each of the nine is here treated as a _Summum Genus_, having its own mode of relationship, and clinging by its own separate thread to the Subject. He acknowledges the Accidents in his classification, not as a class by themselves, but as subordinated to the Essence, and, as so many threads of distinct, variable, and irregular accompaniments, attaching themselves to this constant root, without uniformity or steadiness.[127] [Footnote 122: Simplikius ad Categ. p. 2, b. 5; Schol. p. 52, a. 1, Br: [Greek: A)rchu/tas o( Puthagorei=os ou) prosi/etai tê\n nuni\ prokeime/nên tô=n ou)si/ôn diai/resin, a)ll' a)/llên a)nti\ tau/tês e)kei=nos e)gkri/nei--tô=n me/ntoi Puthagorei/ôn ou)dei\s a)\n pro/soito tau/tên tê\n diai/resin tô=n prô/tôn kai\ deute/rôn ou)siô=n, o(/ti toi=s katho/lou to\ prô/tôs u(pa/rchein marturou=si, to\ de\ e)/schaton e)n toi=s meristoi=s a)polei/pousi, kai\ dio/ti e)n toi=s a(plousta/tois tê\n prô/tên kai\ kuriôta/tên ou)si/an a)poti/thentai, a)ll' ou)ch ô(s nu=n le/getai e)n toi=s sunthe/tois kai\ ai)sthêtoi=s, kai\ dio/ti ta\ ge/nê kai\ ta\ ei)/dê o)/nta nomi/zousin, a)ll' ou)chi\ sugkephalaiou/mena tai=s chôristai=s e)pinoi/ais.]] [Footnote 123: Metaphys. E. p. 1026, b. 15: [Greek: ei)si\ ga\r oi( tô=n sophistô=n lo/goi peri\ to\ sumbebêko\s ô(s ei)pei=n ma/lista pa/ntôn], &c.; also K. p. 1061, b. 8; Analytic. Poster. i. p. 71, b. 10.] [Footnote 124: Analytic. Priora, i. p. 46, a. 31.] [Footnote 125: Aristot. Metaph. E. p. 1026, b. 13-21. [Greek: ô(/sper ga\r o)no/mati mo/non to\ sumbebêko/s--phai/netai ga\r to\ sumbebêko\s e)ggu/s ti tou= mê\ o)/ntos.]] [Footnote 126: Physica, iii. 1, p. 200, b. 34. [Greek: koino\n d' e)pi\ tou/tôn ou)de/n e)sti labei=n], &c.] [Footnote 127: See the explanation given of [Greek: to\ o)\n kata\ sumbebêko\s] in Metaphys. E. pp. 1026 b., 1027 a. This is the sense in which Aristotle most frequently and usually talks of [Greek: sumbebêko/s], though he sometimes uses it to include also a constant and inseparable accompaniment or Accident, if it be not included in the Essence (_i. e._ not connoted by the specific name); thus, to have the three angles equal to two right angles is a [Greek: sumbebêko\s] of the triangle, Metaph. [Greek: D]. p. 1025, a. 80. The proper sense in which he understands [Greek: to\ sumbebêko\s] is as opposed to [Greek: to\ a)ei\ e)x a)na/gkês], as well as [Greek: to\ ô(s e)pi\ to\ polu/]. See Metaphys. K. p. 1065, a. 2; Analyt. Poster. i. p. 74, b. 12, p. 75, a. 18. It is that which is by its nature irregular and unpredictable. See the valuable chapter (ii) in Brentano, Von der Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (pp. 8-21), in which the meaning of [Greek: to\ sumbebêko\s] in Aristotle is clearly set forth.]