Σύγκρισις

[Meaning] the [comparision] of one thing with one or with many. For a comparison with one thing does not occur except in terms of time, whenever [sc. for instance] we search for something which is now more white than before.¹ [Note] that comparison is produced in accordance with many modalities. For one [is to decide] which is the better of predicated subjects (such as in this case: whether wealth or health [is] preferable); alternatively, which of two things exists more in the subject, e.g. the pleasant or the useful in health; [or] whether this [exists more] in this or this in this, e.g. whether the good exists more in health, or the bad in sickness; for in order that comparisons may occur, they are described [as arising] out of what is contingent. And comparison comes into being in terms of what is more, and what is less, and what is similar; for things like that [are] points of comparison. If health, being more eligible than wealth, is not eligible by itself, nor is wealth. And if pleasure, being more a good than an end, is not a good, it would not be an end either. And again: if wealth, being less of a good than health, is [sc. nevertheless] a good, so is health. And if health, being less of a good for those who are at peace than for those who are at war, is a good for the latter, then it is [a good] for the former also.