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CHAP. XIX
Of Categoremes.
a 1.1 CAtegoreme is that which is praedicated of another, or a thing construed with one or more, or (as Apollodorus) a de∣fective dicible, construed with the right case, to make an axiom.
b 1.2 Whatsoever is praedicated of another, is praedicated of the name of the case; and both these are either perfect, as that which is praedicated, and together with the subject sufficient to make an Axiom. Or they are de••ective, and require some addition, to make thereof a perfect praedicate.
If that which is praedicated of a name, make an axiom, it is a Categorem, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a congruity, as walke••h, for example, So∣crates walketh.
But if it be predicated of the case, (whereby transitions are made from one person to another, wherein it is necessary, that some oblique case, be likewise pronounced with the right, they are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as an addition to the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, (or asc 1.3 Pris∣cian renders it, lesse then congruities) as, Cicero saved his Country.
Again, if that which is praedicated of some nown, require a case of some other nown to be added to make up the axiom, so as the construction bee made of two oblique cases, they are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, incongruities, or, according to Ammonius, lesse then 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as, it pleases me to come to thee; whether the nounes onely or the words require it.
d 1.4 Again, of Categoremes, there are four kinds, right, supine, neuter, and reciprocally active and passive. Right are those which have a motion tending to another, and are construed with one of the oblique cases, for the making of a Categorem, as heareth, seeth, discourseth.
Supine are those which are consider'd from habit to an agent, and is construed with a passive particle, as, I am heard, I am seen.
Neuter, as those which are neither way, as, to be wise, to walk.
Reciprocally, active and passive are those, which seem supines but are not, for they are acts, as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, for therein is included 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
The right (or nominative) case, is so called by the Stoicks, whom the Grammarians follow, because it falleth directly from the no∣tion which is in the mind. Oblique cases are the Genitive, Dative and Accusative.