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Then comes time in another
sense, called καιρός by the Greeks, by which they
refer to a period of time, such as summer or winter;
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under this heading come problems such as that about
the man who held high revel in a time of pestilence.1
Action or πρᾶξις, to which they refer questions as to
whether an act was committed wittingly or unwittingly, by accident or under compulsion and the like.
Number, which falls under the category of quantity,
under which come questions such as whether the
state owes Thrasybulus thirty talents for ridding it of
the same number of tyrants.
1 There is no other reference to this theme.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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