Note 1128 — LETTER XLVII.
Reading edition
Μεθοδος is rendered "An artificial and compendious mode of doing any thing; a mode of teaching or learning:" Μεθοδευω is "To overcome by artifice." Συσεμα applied to music is "A full and harmonious assemblage of tones." So that in fact, System should express the actual disposition of objects, or a Natural arrangement; and Method, an Artificial one.