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1. To have is predicated in many modes.
2. Since it is predicated either as habit and disposition, or as some other quality. For we are said to have science and virtue.
3. Or it is predicated as a quantity; as, for instance, the magnitude which anyone has. For he is said to have a magnitude of three or four cubits.
4. Or it is predicated as things about the body; such as a garment, or a shirt. 5.
Or as in a part; as a ring in the hand.
6. Or as a part; as the hand, or the foot.
7. Or as in a measure; as a bushel has wheat, or any amphora wine; for the amphora is said to have the wine, and the bushel the wheat. All these, therefore, are said to have as in a vessel.
8. Or it is predicated as a possession; for we are said to have a house or land.
9. A man also is said to have a woman, and a woman a man. The mode, however, of having now mentioned appears to be most foreign; for by having a woman we signify nothing else than that she co-habits with a man.
10. Perhaps also there may appear to be other modes of having; but all those have been nearly enumerated, which are usually mentioned.
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