1. Literally ‘law-like’, i.e. by stating broad principles, without regard to the details of particular cases.

2. I omit Ross’s conjectural rηγ in 1341b35.

3. Katharsis, ‘purification’, ‘purgation’; cf. VIII vi, n. 6.

4. Apparently a reference to a part of the Poetics not now extant (or indeed never written), since in the celebrated sixth chapter the term katharsis is taken for granted, without discussion.