Abstract
In this passage, the Platonic theory of the happy medium is read in the light of the Aristotelian medietas. At 1008D, supply e.g. ἄπεστι after ἀλλὰ ᾧ πάθους μὲν ἧττον h] τῷ πρώτῳ. In the definition of the medium produced by the δύναμις of λόγος in the passions, “the Platonic philosophers” could be the subject of καλοῦσι.
