The ten categories

In the longer definitions, then, there is the multitude of species found out through the ten categories;

And of the things said without combination, some signify substance, others quality, others quantity, others relation, others where, others when, others to lie, others to have, others to do, others to be affected—which we also call the elements of the things that are in matter and that are after the beginnings.

of existing things, some are bodies, others incorporeal), or a quantity, or a quality, or a relative, or a where, or a when, or to lie, or to have, or to do, or to be affected.

Then, when he travelled it by way of composition, he began with the single expressions that signify the genera of the single meanings and made a book on them, confining these expressions to ten genera of meanings and then dividing each one of them into its species;