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Others hold that there are
six bases: conjecture or γένεσις, quality, particularity or
ἰδιότης by which word they mean definition, quantity
or ἀξία, comparison and competence, for which a new
term has been found in μετάστασις I call it new
when applied to a basis, for Hermagoras employs it
to describe a species of juridical question.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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