[Footnote 45: Arist. Metaphys. A. 1072, a. 26-29; Bonitz, Comm. p. 497 id. [Greek: Prô=ton o)rekto/n--Prô=ton voêto/n (prô=ton o)rekto\n]--"quod _per se_ appetibile est et concupiscitur"). "Quod autem primum est in aliquâ serie, id præcipue etiam habet qualitatem, quæ in reliquâ cernitur serie, c. a. 993, b. 24: ergo prima illa substantia est [Greek: to\ a)/riston]"--also [Greek: G] 1004, a. 25-26, 1005, a. 7, about the [Greek: prô=ton e(/n--prô=ton o)/n]. These were [Greek: ta\ pollachô=s lego/mena--ta\ pleonachô=s lego/mena]--which were something less than [Greek: sunô/numa] and more than [Greek: o(mô/numa]; intermediate between the two, having no common [Greek: lo/gos] or generical unity, and yet not entirely equivocal, but designating a [Greek: koino\n kat' a)nalogi/an]: not [Greek: kata\ mi/an i)de/an lego/mena], but [Greek: pro\s e(\n] or [Greek: pro\s mi/an phu/sin]; having a certain relation to one common [Greek: phu/sis] called [Greek: to\ prô=ton]. See the Metaphys. [Greek: G]. 1003, a. 33--[Greek: to/ de\ o)/n le/getai me\n pollachô=s, a)lla\ pro\s e(/n kai\ mi/an tina\ phu/sin, kai\ ou)ch o(mônu/môs, a)ll' ô(/sper to\ u(gieino\n a(/pan pro\s u(giei/an, to\ me\n tô=| phula/ttein, to\ de\ tô=| poiei=n, to\ de\ tê| sêmei=on ei)=nai tê=s u(giei/as, to\ d' o(/ti dektiko\n au)tê=s--kai\ to\ i)atriko\n pro\s i)atrikê/n], &c. The Scholion of Alexander upon this passage is instructive (p. 638, a. Brandis); and a very copious explanation of the whole doctrine is given by M. Brentano, in his valuable treatise, 'Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung _des Seienden_ nach Aristoteles,' Freiburg, 1862, pp. 85-108-147. Compare Aristotel. Politic. III. i. 9, p. 1275, a. 35.