GENERATION OF ANIMALS 



can be little doubt that this is the translation 

 from which Michael Scot made his Latin 

 version. 



(2) Michael Scot translated H.A., P. A. and G.A. 

 into Latin from the Arabic at Toledo. This 

 translation was finished before 1217. 



(3) William of Moerbeke translated the zoological 

 works into Latin from the Greek, at Thebes, 

 in or before 1260. 



(4) Theodore of Gaza began at Rome in 1450 to 

 make translations of Aristotle and other Greek 

 authors. His translation of the zoological 

 works of Aristotle is dedicated to Pope Sixtus 

 IV, and this soon became the standard Latin 

 version. It is printed in the Berlin edition of 

 Aristotle. 



The Text 



It soon became clear that for the purpose of transla- Method. 

 tion it was necessary to make a working version of 

 the Greek text, and to this end I made my first draft 

 with the Berlin edition, Aubert and Wimmer's edition, 

 and Piatt's translation and textual emendations be- 

 fore me. Next, I transcribed suspected passages with 

 their contexts from the mss. of Scot's version, in order 

 to give them fuller consideration. Then, ha\ing in- 

 corporated a large number of changes into the text, 

 some of them my own, I took into consideration the 

 work of Bitterauf and others. In some cases I found 

 that the same emendation had been proposed by two 

 or more scholars independently, and also that some of 

 these emendations were confirmed by Scot. Finally, 

 I found it necessary to transcribe further portions of 

 Scot's version. 



