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for the final settlement of all that concerns Association. 

 " When not otherwise stated in the notes, the text of 

 Bekker is that from which the translation will be made," 

 he says ; but, " besides this admirable recension, with the 

 variations of six MSS., I shall compare," he magnanim- 

 ously intimates, the " Camotio Aldine, Erasmian, Morellian, 

 Simonian. Sylburgian, Casaubonian, Pacian, and Duvallian 

 editions ; but above all, the quotations in Themistius, and 

 the prjttis in Michael Ephesius." " Of versions, some of 

 which have the authority of MSS.," he continues, " I 

 have those of Leonicus, Schegkius, Vatablus, Perionius, 

 Labittus, Simonius, Crippa, and the anonymous version 

 extant in the Venice editions of the combined works 

 of Aristotle and Averroes. That of Alcyonius" he 

 admits with noble self-denial, " I have not seen " but 

 " Taylor 's English translation is mere rubbish." So far of 

 Versions and Text ; but, oh ! now of commentators ! " Of 

 commentators on the De Memoria I have the following : 

 The Greek paraphrase of Themistius which dates from 

 the fourth century. The only edition is that of Aldus 

 in 1534. The Greek commentary of Michael Ephesius, 

 in points of difficulty seldom more than a transcript of 

 Themistius, is of a comparatively recent, but uncertain, 

 date. If Allatius (De Psellis, 32) be right in his 

 plausible conjecture, and the Scholiast and the ex- 

 Einperor Michael Ducas, who died Archbishop of Ephesus, 

 be the same, it will not ascend higher than the latter 

 l>art of the eleventh century. Of this, also, there is only 

 one edition the Aldine of 1527. I am well acquainted 

 with the scholastic commentaries of Averroes (t!20G), 

 Albertus Magnus (t 1280), and Aquinas (t 1274). Sub- 

 sequent to the revival of letters, I have the expositions 

 of Faber Stapuknsu, 1500, Leonicus, 1520, Javellus, 

 1540, Schegkius, 1546, Labittus (in MS.), 1553 

 Gcsner,c. 15 60, but only printed 1586, Simonius, 1566, 



