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[26arg] In what words the philosopher Aristotle defined a syllogism; and an interpretation of his definition in Latin terms.ARISTOTLE defines a syllogism in these lines: 1 “A sentence in which, granted certain premises, something else than these premises necessarily follows as the result of these premises.” The following interpretation of this definition seemed to me fairly good: “A syllogism is a sentence in which, certain things being granted and accepted, something else than that which was granted is necessarily established through what was granted.”
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[27arg] The meaning of comitia calata, curiata, centsriata, and tribulta, and of concilium, and other related matters of the same kind.IN the first book of the work of Laelius Felix addressed To Quintus Mucius it is said 2 that Labeo wrote 3 that the comitia calata, or “convoked assembly,” was held on behalf of the college of pontiffs for the purpose of installing the king 4 or the flames. Of these assemblies some were those “of the curies”, others those “of the centuries”; the former were called together (calari being used in the sense of “convoke”) by the curiate lictor, the latter by a horn blower.
