Rudimenta artium dialecticae et rhetoricae

DIALECTICAE.

Actio, Situation, Substantiat, Accidents, etc.

2. Quantity is properly that which can be divided: as Magnitude, into spaces: Number, into units. To this order belong all broad, deep things, and those which receive dimension.

Quantity.

3. Quality is a certain affection of both the mind and the body. Affections of the mind are virtues, vices: arts, inactivities. Of the body: fairness, darkness: firmness, weakness. Therefore, whatever things signify quality and affection ought to be referred to this predicament.

Quality.

4. Relatives or "Ad aliquid" Toward something are called those which are with respect to another. Or, those which are understood by comparison: as, Father and son: Husband and wife: Teacher and student. For none of these is understood without the other. Therefore, whatever things are of this nature will belong to this order.

Ad aliquid

5. Action or "to act" are the actions themselves of things: which are indeed varied and multiple.

Agere.

6. Passion or "to suffer" are the effects of actions: or those which as subjects suffer from the agents themselves. Thus, a smith, who yields,

Pati.