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Chapter 17 Limit

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πέρας λέγεται τό τε ἔσχατον ἑκάστου καὶ οὗ ἔξω μηδὲν [5] ἔστι λαβεῖν πρώτου καὶ οὗ ἔσω πάντα πρώτου,	Terminus dicitur quod est cuiuslibet ultimum et cuius extra nihil est accipere primi et cuius infra omnia primi.	Chapter 17. Limit means (1) the last point of each thing, i.e. the first point beyond which it is not possible to find any part, and the first point within which every part is;
καὶ ὃ ἂν ᾖ εἶδος μεγέθους ἢ ἔχοντος μέγεθος, καὶ τὸ τέλος ἑκάστου (τοιοῦτον δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὃ ἡ κίνησις καὶ ἡ πρᾶξις, καὶ οὐκ ἀφ᾽ οὗ—ὁτὲ δὲ ἄμφω, καὶ ἀφ᾽ οὗ καὶ ἐφ᾽ ὃ καὶ τὸ οὗ ἕνεκα), καὶ ἡ οὐσία ἡ ἑκάστου καὶ τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι ἑκάστῳ: τῆς γνώσεως γὰρ τοῦτο [10] πέρας: εἰ δὲ τῆς γνώσεως, καὶ τοῦ πράγματος.	↵ Et quodcumque fuerit species magnitudinis aut habentis magnitudinem. Et finis cuiusque, tale vero ad quod motus et actus et non a quo; et quandoque ambo, et a quo et in quod. Et cuius causa. Et substantia cuiuslibet et quod quid erat esse cuique; cognitionis enim hoc terminus; si autem cognitionis, ↵ et rei.	(2) the form, whatever it may be, of a spatial magnitude or of a thing that has magnitude; (3) the end of each thing (and of this nature is that towards which the movement and the action are, not that from which they are – though sometimes it is both, that from which and that to which the movement is, i.e. the final cause); (4) the substance of each thing, and the essence of each; for this is the limit of knowledge; and if of knowledge, of the object also.
ὥστε φανερὸν ὅτι ὁσαχῶς τε ἡ ἀρχὴ λέγεται, τοσαυταχῶς καὶ τὸ πέρας, καὶ ἔτι πλεοναχῶς: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἀρχὴ πέρας τι, τὸ δὲ πέρας οὐ πᾶν ἀρχή.	Quare palam quia quotiens principium dicitur totiens terminus, et adhuc amplius; principium enim terminus quidam est, sed terminus non omnis principium.	Evidently, therefore, limit has as many senses as beginning , and yet more; for the beginning is a limit, but not every limit is a beginning.