Note 445 — Chapter IV · PARMENIDES OF ELEA

This is Zeller’s way of taking the words, and still seems to me the best. Diels objects that ἑτέρην would be required, and renders nur eine derselben, das sei unerlaubt, giving the words to the “mortals.” This seems to me to involve more serious grammatical difficulties than the use of μίαν for τὴν ἑτέραν, which is quite legitimate when there is an emphasis on the number. Aristotle must have taken it so; for he infers that one of the μορφαί is to be identified with τὸ ἐόν.