ARISTOTLE 



I do not wish to claim more for the text here offered 

 than that it is a better text than any hitherto avail- 

 able. I have done my best with the data at my 

 disposal, but I am well aware that naany passages 

 yet remain to which I have not been able to offer any 

 satisfactory solution. 

 Apparatm When I have accepted the reading of Bekker's 

 criticus. gfji^^JQf,, I have not normally given the in^ss. variants. 

 These will be found in Bekker's apparatus. Corrected 

 reports of mss. readings as given by Susemihl and 

 Bitterauf I have distinguished by an asterisk ; the 

 other readings are as reported by Bekker " (some- 

 times confirmed by Bitterauf). Every departure 

 from Bekker's text is recorded. 

 Arrange- The text has been reparagraphed throughout, and 

 ™™ ■ in many places the punctuation has been corrected. 

 Manu- The following manuscripts * are cited for the Greek 

 text : 



Z Oxoniensis Collegii Corporis Christi W.A. 2. 7 

 ( = Coxe 108). Late 12th century. Presented to 

 the College by Henry Parry, P'ellow, in 1623. It 

 contains P. A., I. A., G.A., some of the Parva 

 Naturalia, and De spiritu. G.A. begins f. 74^, and 

 ends f. \QV, but this page is identical with 62^. 

 The MS. is confusedly bound, and some passages 

 it has lost altogether.'' 



S Laurentianus Mediceus 81, 1. Written in differ- 

 ent hands, some of the 12th, some of the 13th 



" A few (for m and E) are as reported by Bussemaker. 



^ For further details, see Bitterauf (below, p. xxv), Ditt- 

 meyer, H.^l. (Introd.), Jaeger, M.A. and LA. (Introd.), etc. 



•^ 738 b 1 ^€Xt[Iovos ... 740 a 7 to] yevonevov ; and 760 a 13 

 TTcos [r) yeveais . . . 760 b 27 /x€v| cAcittco, the latter passage 

 having been supplied by a later hand. 



scripts : 



(a) Greek 



text, 



