Ietaphysics

Apistoteaots Ta Meta Ta ®Tsika

ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS

A REVISED TEXT WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY

BY Wr Dr ROSS

Fellow of Oriel College

DEPUTY PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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Index to the Introduction and Commentary .

Mlas

Apizstoteaoys

Ta Meta Ta ®Y3ika

Sigla

E = Parisinus gr. 1853, saec. x
J = Vindobonensis phil. gr. C, saec. x ineuntis
A> = Laurentianus 87. 12, saec. xii
f= Gulielmi de Moerbeka translatio, c. 1260-1275
Al., Asc., Syr., Them. = Alexandri, Asclepii, Syriani, Themistii
commentaria
Al.!, etc. = Alexandri, etc., lemmata
Al.¢, etc. = Alexandri, etc., citationes

Raro citantur

recc. = codices recentiores

S = Laurentianus 81. 1, saec. xiii T = Vaticanus 256, anni 1321

F> = Parisinus gr. 1876, saec. xiii i = Bessarionis translatio, c. 1452

= editio Aldina, anni 1498
® = Aristotelis Physica
A = Metaphysicorum liber A

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Metaphysics — Aristotle (trans. W. D. Ross)