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CAP. 23. Conjugates.

Q. Hitherto you have expounded the first arguments, those derived from the first follow, what are they then?

A. Those derived from the first are these, which are even to that which they argue, as the first from whence they are derived.

Q. VVhat be the kinds of these arguments?

A. A Conjugate, a Notation, a Distribution, and a De∣finition.

Q. VVhat are Conjugates?

A. Conjugates are names drawn diversly from the same principal.

Q. Give example?

A. Justice, Just, Justly.

Q. Is there not a Symbol in Conjugates of agreeing argu∣ments?

A. Yes.

Q. Give example?

A. Propert. Lib. 2.

Because in love there is no liberty, VVhoever loves that man, can ne'r be free.

Q. Shew the force of this example?

A. Here liberty is the cause why we should be free.

Q. Give another example?

A. Cic. Nat. Deo. 2. Where he speaketh of Dionysius the ty∣rant. He commanded that the tables of silver, in which were the Images of the Gods, should be taken away; in which after the manner of the Grecians should be ingraven, The goods of the Gods, saying, that he was willing to use of their goodness.

Q. Shew the force of this example?

A. The Gods are good, therefore their goodness is to be used: here from the effects it is directed to the causes.

Q. Give another example?

A. Ter. I am a man, no humane thing is strange to me.

A. Is it not sometimes from the Subject to the Adjunct?

A. Yes.

Q. Give example?

A. Phil. 2. I will not handle thee as a Consul, lest thou handle me as one standing for the Consulship. In Pis. When as all the cause was of the Consuls and Senate, both the Con∣suls and Senate had need of my help.