Note 204 — Lecture V. CHRISTIANITY AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY.

An indication of this may be seen in the fact that words which have come down to modern times as technical terms of geometry were used indifferently in the physical and moral sciences, e.g. theorem (θεώρημα), Philo, Leg. alleg. 3. 27 (i. 104), θεωρήμασι τοῖς περὶ κόσμου καὶ τῶν μερῶν αὐτοῦ: Epict. Diss. 2. 17. 3; 3. 9. 2; 4. 8. 12, &c., of the doctrines of moral philosophy: sometimes co-ordinated or interchanged with δόγμα, e.g. Philo, de fort. 3 (ii. 877), διὰ λογικῶν καὶ ἠθικῶν καὶ φυσικῶν δογμάτων καὶ θεωρημάτων: Epictet. Diss. 4. 1. 137, 139, and as a variant Ench. 52. 1. So definition (ὁρισμός) is itself properly applicable to the marking out of the boundaries of enclosed land. So also ἀπόδειξις was not limited to ideal or “necessary” matter, but was used of all explanations of the less by the more evident; e.g. Musonius, Frag. ap. excerpt. e Joann. Damasc., in Stob. Ecl. ii. 751, ed. Gaisf., after defining it, gives as an example a proof that pleasure is not a good.