ARISTOTLE 



Additional Notes on the Text 



I add here four textual annotations for which there was 

 no room in the body of the work. 



I. 719 a 2 if. The mss. and editions have various readings, 

 and several proposals have been made for emendation, 



Bekker has : t6v avrov Tpoirov to. irXeiOTa yiyveTai ovnep ev 

 Tols opvicriv (opvidiois SYZ)' Kara^aivei yap 

 Karo), Kal . . . 



Z : ... yiyverai ovnep . . . Kal Kara^aivet 



KO-TU) . . . 



P : ... yiyv6(j.evov ovnep . . . KaTa^alvet koltco . . . 



S : ... yiyveTai oiOTxep . . . Kara^aivet. KaTw . . . 



(Hence Y must be the authority for yap.) 

 Aldus : ylyverai ovnep . . . opvidioLS Kara^aivei KaTco . . . 



A.-W. coni. : (ij TeXelcoais} ylverai ovnep ev roZs opviaiv (to 



aia) Kara^aivet kuto) . . . 

 Susemihl coni. : . . . opviaiv (jj reXeiuiois' ra S' (ha) Kara^aivet 



KaTlO. 



If loss of this sort is likely, which I doubt, a more probable 

 emendation would be Kara^aivei yap Karw (ja a>d), koI . . . 

 But I suspect that the corruption is more serious, for Scot 

 reads : et similiter multis ovis avium ; <.et quedam animalia 

 ovant interius, et exit ab eis animal parvum, ; et cum pervenit 

 tempus partus> descendunt K.ovay ad partem inferiorem, apud 

 iuncturas et exit ab eis animal sicut accidit animalibus ge- 

 nerantibus animalia ex prima creatione. The Greek original 

 of the words in brackets has disappeared from our text. 



II. 738 a 8 ff. I suspect that the original reading here was 

 TOi? ■nepiTTtufiaai rols t' axprioroi? {koI toTs ;fp7jCTt/Liots), and 

 that the rest of our present text is part of a gloss, for ttj 

 Te . . . vypa. cannot be construed, and the reference to blood 

 seems to consider blood as a " residue," which is incorrect. 

 If my suggestion is right, the gloss will have ousted the 

 reference to useful residues from our text, and the reference to 

 useless ones from Scot's ultimate original, for Scot reads 

 omnia ista habent membra recipiencia superfluitatem qva 

 indigent (his regular equivalent for xp^ciMoj) sicut sanguis qui 

 habet locum in venis ; ergo ipse vadit in ea sicut in vasa. 

 Clearly, too, Scot incorporates more of the latter part of the 

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