ON INTERPRETATION.

of another, as we shall say shortly.

A verb differs from a noun in that a noun signifies an act without time. Thus, "health" signifies a form without time: but "he heals" or "he is healed" signifies a certain act or form with time. Furthermore, a noun is sometimes used as a subject, sometimes also as a predicate: yet in such a way that without a verb, it cannot be predicated. But verbs themselves are always predicated, nor can they be subjects by themselves, that is, they are never used as subjects alone. For a verb is not a subject by itself and alone, but is added with something, as in this statement: "He who is, sent me to you."

Difference between nouns and verbs.

Furthermore, verbs signify forms either inherent in the subject or also not inherent. Those that are not inherent in the subject are katholou universals, which are predicated not paronymōs derivatively but synonymōs univocally: such as genera, species, differences, and definitions, which are predicated of subjects, yet are not present within the subjects. Other forms are inherent, such as those that are predicated paronymōs. Such are finite verbs.

Verbs signify inherent, or not inherent, or not inherent.

¶ The part of a verb signifies nothing separately, just as that of a noun. Thus, in the verb anakalyptein to reveal/uncover, the parts retain neither certain nor principal significations. For kalyptein to cover is one thing, and anakalyptein is another. Dioscor. lib. 6. cap. 34.

There are other verbs called aorista, that is, infinite, which do indeed consignify time, and are always predicated by themselves, but they signify an infinite and not a certain act. In these, there is the same reason for aoristias indefiniteness as there was in infinite nouns. For as