2. What these were, and whose, is not clear. Jaeger (276 ff.) believes that in VII i–iii Aristotle is ‘basing himself’ on material in his own early work, the Protrepticus, an exhortation to the philosophic life.

3. Literally, ‘things external, things in (of) the body, and things in (of) the soul.’ ‘Things’ are in effect ‘goods’, though agatha is not in the Greek at this point.