*po/qen. *poi=. e)pi\ pa/shs metabolh=s tou=to lhpte/on, w(/s fhsin *)aristote/lhs.
For
po/qen see already
pi 1856; for
poi= see
pi 3068,
pi 3069,
pi 3070; and for their conjunction see the opening line of
Plato's
Phaedrus (227A), where Socrates greets Ph. with the twin questions
poi= dh\ kai\ po/qen?
The present entry, however, is clearly concerned with these questions not in their original, literal sense but in an applied, philosphical one.
As Adler noted, no specific passage in
Aristotle corresponds to the present material. Nevertheless several of his works employ the asyndetic phrase
po/qen poi= as a shorthand way of describing the starting-point and the finishing-point of a process or transaction; and (as a TLG search reveals) what the Suda says about it here corresponds with several passages in the Aristotelian
Commentaries by Alexander of
Aphrodisias. The closest of them is
On the Topica 96.19 (on
Topica 105b30-37):
pa=sa ki/nhsis metabolh\ poqe\n poi= lhpte/on.
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