The Egyptian Language Restored

OF CLAUDIUS GALEN

the knowledge begins, from which all arts are constituted, he wrote with method and reason. But we have treated that in another work; in this place, however, we institute the method that occurs through the dissolution of a definition: which, by however much it is inferior in dignity, method, and reason to that which occurs through resolution, by so much more is it known to contribute to the compendium of the whole. Since, indeed, all things can be committed to memory very easily from the dissolution of a definition, for the reason that a very good definition contains in itself the chapters of the whole Dpart: which some call substantial, distinct from those opposite to them, which are called noëmaticae intellectual/notional concepts in Greek. For these consist of the accidents that inhere in the things being defined; the former consists of the substance. But we have diligently written the entire commentary on medicine in many other works, which one may use for the three doctrines. But we shall now approach that which is done by the dissolution of a definition, if we have also added only this: that we shall present only the headings, and as it were, the conclusions of those things that have been demonstrated at length.