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1. To act and to suffer receive contrariety, and the more and the less.
2. For to heat is the contrary of to cool, to be heated is the contrary of to be cooled, and to be pleased is the contrary of to be pained; so that they receive contrariety.
3. They also receive the more and the less. For it is possible to heat more and less, to be heated more and less, and to be pained more and less. To act and to suffer, therefore, receive the more and the less.
4. And thus, much we have said of these things.
5. But we have spoken of the being situated in what we said about Relatives, and have observed, that it is paronymously denominated from positions.
6. And with respect to the other categories, viz. when, where, and to have, because they are manifest, nothing else can be said of them, than was said in the beginning; that to have, signifies, indeed, to be shod, to be armed; that where signifies, for instance, in the Lyceum, in the Forum; and such other things as are asserted of these.
7. What has been said, therefore, of the proposed Genera is sufficient.
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