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gloss than the Greek text does, and the reference to vasa 

 ( = dyyera) leads me to think that the gloss was founded on 

 a misunderstanding of the passage at P. A. 650 a 33 (q.v.). 

 The blood-vessels are often described as ayyela in P. A. ; 

 c/. G.A. 740 a 23. 



II. 746 a 33. Here Bitterauf, following the suggestion of 

 Bussemaker, proposes to insert </cai Ococuv} after Kal Xvkwv on 

 the strength of William's and Scot's versions. The latter 

 reads in canibus et vulpihus et lupis et in genere quod dicitur 

 grece comez (Buss, and Btf. give comex). This is supported 

 by the fact that at 774 b 17 Scot translates kvojv Xvkos dws 

 canis et lupus et animal quod dicitur grece noz. (Such 

 variation in the spelling of proper and other unusual names 

 is not infrequent in Scot.) At 743 a 9 Oojs is not represented 

 in Scot's version. 



(According to A.-W., dots, usually translated "jackal," is 

 most probably the civet or genet : see D. \V. Thompson, 

 H.A. 580 a 29, n.) 



V. 781 a 10 ol yap nopoi . . . 781 b 5 avyL^aivovmv. The 

 main arguments against this passage being an original and 

 genuine part of the text may be stated as follows : 



(1) The introductory yap introduces no real explanation or 

 expansion of the preceding statement. The passage is in 

 fact completely extraneous to the argument. 



(2) The reference to De sensu at 781 a 21 is incorrect, as 

 A.-W. point out. There is no such clear statement in De 

 sensu ; at 439 a 1 the atadrj-rripiov of touch and taste is said 

 to be npos TTJ KapSia, but nothing is said to suggest that sight 

 and smell have any further connexion beyond their connexion 

 with the brain. At P. A. 656 a 29, on the other hand, there 

 is a more exact reference to De sensu : " The correct view, that 

 the dpxT] of the senses is the region around the heart, has 

 already been defined in the treatise 0/ Sensation, where also 

 I show why it is that two of the senses, touch and taste, are 

 evidently {(f>av€pu)s) connected to the heart." Shortly before 

 (656 a 20 ff.) Aristotle has stated that the brain is not the 

 cause of any of the sensations ; it is dvaiadrjrog. 



(3) The passage is concerned exclusively with that part of 

 the mechanism of hearing which is internal, not with the 

 superficial sense-organ, whereas the reason given for accuracy 

 of hearing and smelling is concerned only with the super- 

 ficial sense-organ (just as the similar argument for sight, 



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