  In quaestio 5, for instance, Italos talks about the same three types of genera in the same order, but a certain detail of his account proves to be quite intriguing. Italos, too, regards the genera before the particulars as the causes and paradigms of perceptible individuals, which are not predicates, are separate from them, and exist in God’s mind, perfectly accommodating in this way the requirements of Christian dogma. But then he presents the genera in the particulars and the genera after the particulars in a manner which seems to differ from Ammonius’ account, for he seems to treat them as two subdivisions of one class of genera, which is distinguished from the genera before the particulars by being later-born (hysterogenē) than the perceptible individuals, capable of being predicated of them, inseparable from them, and acquired by our mind by abstraction. What makes the genera in the particulars differ from the genera after the particulars, according to Italos, is the fact that they are inseparable from the particulars in which they are: they are not predicated of many particulars, but only of the one particular which participates in them. The animal in Socrates is not the same as the animal in Plato. On the other hand, the genera after the particulars are predicated of many particulars, and it is one and the same genus that is predicated both of all the particulars together and of every single one of them separately.