When she made this request, and I had deprecated the suspicion that I was making the objections in real earnest, instead of only wishing to get a firm ground for the belief about the soul by calling into court6    ἀντιπιπτόντων πρὸς τὸν σκοπὸν τοῦτον ὑποκληθέντων: the reading of the Parisian Editions. But the preponderance of ms. authority is in favour of ὑπεκλυθέντων, “si quæ ad hoc propositum opponuntur soluta fuerint,” Krabinger. The force of ὑπὸ will then be “by way of rejoinder.” The idea in σκοπὸν seems to be that of a butt set up to be shot at. All the mss. but not the Paris Editions, have the article before ἀντιπιπτότων: but it is not absolutely necessary, for Gregory not unfrequently omits it before participles, when his meaning is general, i.e. “Everything that,” &c. first what is aimed against this view, I began—

_Μ. Οὐκοῦν ζητῆσαι χρὴ, φησὶν ἡ διδάσκαλος, ὅθεν ἂν ἡμῖν τὴν δέουσαν περὶ τούτων ἀρχὴν ὁ λόγος λάβῃ. Καὶ εἰ δοκεῖ, παρὰ σοῦ γενέσθω τῶν ἐναντίων δογμάτων ἡ συμμαχία: ὁρῶ γὰρ ὅτι σοι καὶ ὑποκεκίνηται πρὸς τοιαύτην καταφορὰν ἡ διάνοια. Εἶθ' οὕτως ὁ τῆς ἀληθείας μετὰ τὴν ἀντίθεσιν ἀναζητηθήσεται λόγος.