SIMPLICIUS On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 Translated by Pamela Huby & C.C.Wi Taylor Ancient Commentators on Aristotle General editor : Richard SorabjiSIMPLICIUS On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 Translated by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. Taylor Bristol Classical Press Ancient Commentators on Aristotle General editor: Richard SorabjiFirst published in 2011 by Bristol Classical Press. an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Ple 36 Soho Square, London W1D 3QY © 2011 by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. Taylor All rights reserved. No part of this Publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. CIP records for this book are available from the British Library and the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-7156-3921-4 Acknowledgements ‘The present translations have been made possible by generous and imaginative funding from the following sources: the National En- dowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, an independent federal agency of the USA; the Leverhulme Trust; the British Academy; the Jowett Copyright Trustees; the Royal Society (OR); Centro Internazionale A. Beltrame di Storia dello Spazio¢ del Tempo (Padua); Mario Mignucci; Liverpool University; the Leventis Foundation; the Arts and Humanities Research Council: Groshant College; the Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust; the Henry Brown Trust; Mr and Mrs N. Egon; the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/GW); the Ashdown Trust; Dr Vietona Sclomonides, the Cultural Attaché of the Greek Embassy in Lon. don. The editor wishes to thank Mossman Roueché and Catherine Osborne for their comments, Era Gavrielides for preparing the volume for press, and Deborah Blake at Duckworth, who has bees the publisher responsible for every volume since the first. Typeset by Ray Davies Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group www.bloomsburyacademic.com Contents Conventions Abbreviations Textual Emendations Introduction Translation 1.3 14 Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Subject Index Index of Passages 13 15 58 89 112 113 123 145 147