g. we say that the vessel holds the liquid and the city holds men
and the ship sailors; and so too that the whole holds the parts.-(4)
That which hinders a thing from moving or acting according to its
own impulse is said to hold it, as pillars hold the incumbent weights,
and as the poets make Atlas hold the heavens, implying that
otherwise they would collapse on the earth, as some of the natural
philosophers also say. In this way also that which holds things
together is said to hold the things it holds together, since they
would otherwise separate, each according to its own impulse.
'Being in something' has similar and corresponding meanings to
'holding' or 'having'.
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'To come from something' means (1) to come from something as
from matter, and this in two senses, either in respect of the
highest genus or in respect of the lowest species; e.g. in a sense all
things that can be melted come from water, but in a sense the statue
comes from bronze.-(2) As from the first moving principle; e.g.
'what did the fight come from?' From abusive language, because this
was the origin of the fight.-(3) From the compound of matter and
shape, as the parts come from the whole, and the verse from the Iliad,
and the stones from the house; (in every such case the whole is a
compound of matter and shape,) for the shape is the end, and only that
which attains an end is complete.-(4) As the form from its part,
e.g. man from 'two-footed'and syllable from 'letter'; for this is a
different sense from that in which the statue comes from bronze; for
the composite substance comes from the sensible matter, but the form
also comes from the matter of the form.
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