‘Point de caption’, Lacan protests in the preface to the Points edition of Ecrits, is his translation of the Stoics' lekton – the ‘expressible’ – a verbal function which forms the joint between the Stoics' logic and their ethics. The example from Racine he used when introducing the expression point de caption shows that it was not primarily a matter of theory, truth and falsehood, but of a kind of ethical action, in this case the conversion of fear into courage. Historians of philosophy specify that this ‘expressible’ is always an action, a fact or an event, never a state, a potentiality, or a concept. Bréhier points out that in Stoic logic, ‘A body is warm’ was an incorrect judgement; the proper form was, ‘A body warms up’, since they did not accept the idea of a property, ‘warmth’, that would be attributed to the subject. For them, warming up was rather an occurrence which befell the body in question. The lekta thus introduced into the real of material bodies, or beings apprehensible through the senses, a series of relations that existed only in language and were expressible as verbs or the combinations of verbal expressions we call compound and complex sentences.