[) ARISTOTELIS PHYSICA RECOGNOVIT BREVIQVE ADNOTATIONE CRITICA INSTRVXIT W. D. ROSS OXFORD CLASSICAL TEXTS I I Mo I i || ————— ti ee (—- MM aS SSS OSARISTOTELIS PHYSICA RECOGNOVIT BREVIQUE ADNOTATIONE CRITICA INSTRUXIT W. D. ROSS OXONII E TYPOGRAPHEO CLARENDONIANOOxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6pP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogoté Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dares Salaam Dethi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Oxford University Press 1950 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, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press. Within the UK, exceptions are allowed in respect of any fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms and in other countries should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above ISBN 0-19-814514-4 13.15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12 Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Bookcraft Ltd., Midsomer Norton, Somerset PRAEFATIO Physicorum sex codices a Bekkero collati sunt: Par. Gr. 1853 (E), Laur. 87. 7(F), Laur. 87. 6 (G), Vat. 1027 (H), Vat. 241 (I), Laur. 87. 24 (K), quorum E saeculo decimo scriptus est, G duodecimo, I atque K tredecimo, H tredecimo aut quartodecimo, F quarto- decimo. His adieci decimi saecuti codicem, Vind. 100 (J), qui a ceteris omnino neglectus ab A. Gercke in lucem protractus est,' ab amico meo F. H. Fobes minute descriptus.? Huius codicis lectiones a Fobes in editione sua Meteorologicorum, a me in editione Metaphystcorum, a D. J. Allan in editione librorum De Caelo commemoratae sunt. Codices EFIJ totum textum Physi- corum (libri septimi parte excepta) continent, GH K partes solum. Habemus etiam in libris 2, 3, 5 multos locos qui cum locis Melaphysicorum tantum congruunt ut Metaphystcorum codices codicibus Phystcorum auxilio veniant. In libris 1-4 habemus collationem a viro doctissimo Augustino Mansion factam’ ver- sionis Latinae (ipsius ex versione Arabica factae) quae com- mentariis Averrois praefixa est. Habemus Themistii paraphrasim et, quod multo plus prodest, Philoponi commentaria in libros 1-4, fragmenta commentariorum in libros 5-8. Habemus denique, quod maximi momenti est, commentaria Simplicii in totum opus, atque in his commentariis multa ex commentariis Alexandri Aphrodisiensis citata. Codicum tres familiae esse videntur. Ex una E solus collatus est, ex altera FGHIJ, ex tertia K, qui magis constat cum FHIJ in libro sexto, cum E in libris 7-8. Familia prima videtur verba Aristotelis ipsius accuratius tradidisse; ut scripsit D. J. Allan, ‘codex E focutionem asperam atque honesta simplicitate in- signem, codex J (nisi fallor) pleniorem atque emendatiorem Stagiritae tribuit’, Sed codex E per incuriam multos sibi pro- prios errores habet, multa omittit; ita fit ut consensus omnium " Wiener Studien, 14, 146-8. § Classical Review, 27. 249-50; Class, PAslol, 10. 189, n. 1. ® Revue de Philol, 47. 5-41.