Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 1

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De generatione et corruptione. Aristotle. ed. E. S. Forster. United States. 2017.

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De generatione et corruptione (Greek) (Aristotle. On Sophistical Refutations, On Coming to be and Passing Away, On the Cosmos. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. London, Cambridge: William Heinmann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1955.)

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De generatione et corruptione

1. 314 a 1
2. 314 a
3. 314 b
4. a Diels, fr. 17.
5. b i.e. compounds (though, it may be, in different proportions) of the same four simple bodies—Earth, Air, Fire and Water—such as wood, the metals. and blood, flesh and marrow in animals. Such compounds, when divided, still retain the same constituents.
6. 314 b.
7. ᵃ Diels, fr. 8.
8. b Diets, fr. 21 lines 3 and 5.
9. 314 b
10. 315 a
11. 315 a
12. 315 b
13. ¹ τοῦ ὁμοίου addidi.
14. ᵃ i.e. Water and Air.
15. ᵇ Namely, that set up by Strife.
16. c Timaeus 52 D ff.
17. 315 b
18. 315 b
19. 316 a
20. ¹ εἰ post ἢ omisi cum EH.
21. ᵃ Plato, Timaeus 53 c ff.
22. ᵇ De Caelo 299 a 6 ff.
23. c These terms are explained in Met. 935 b 15 ff.
24. 316 a
25. ᵃ i.e. the Platonists.
26. ᵇ See De Lin. Insec. 968 a 9 ff.
27. 316 a
28. 316 b
29. ᵃ i.e. the sum of the separated parts.
30. 316 b
31. ᵃ i.e. points of division and quality.
32. ᵇ Phys. 231 a 21 ff. e i.e. uncuttable.
33. 316 b
34. 317 a
35. ¹ οὐχὶ δέ J: om. cet. codd.
36. 2 καὶ H : ἢ.
37. 317 a
38. 317 b
39. a 328 a 23-b 22.
40. 317 b
41. ᵃ Phys. i. 6-9.
42. b i.e. as “being ” and as “not-being.”
43. 317 b
44. 318 a
45. ᵃ In lines 10, 11 above.
46. ᵇ i.e. qualified, that is, changing in respect of quality, quantity or position.
47. c Phys. 258 b 10 ff.
48. 318 a
49. a Usually called πρώτη φιλοσοφία.
50. ᵇ See 336 a 13 ff.
51. c Or “specific ” causes, as opposed to causes in the universal sense : ef. Phys. 195 a 27 ff.
52. 318 a
53. 318 b
54. a Fr. 8 lines 53 ff. (Diels), but Parmenides mentions this theory as being wrong.
55. 318 b
56. 318 b
57. 319 a
58. ᵃ τοῦ μὲν (318 b 33) is answered by τοῦ δὲ (319 a 3), and the construction is broken by the parenthesis.
59. b i.e. in 318 a 33 ff.
60. c i.e. to the quetion raised in lines 3-5 above.
61. 319 a
62. ᵃ i.e. the two parallel columns containing co-ordinate pairs; see W. D. Ross on Met. 1054 b 35.
63. 319 a.
64. ¹ post κοῦφον add. τὸ EL.
65. 319 b
66. 320 a
67. 320 a.
68. ¹ καὶ φθορᾶς post γενέσεως add. Bekker.
69. 320 a
70. 320 b
71. ᵃ i.e. either as itself occupying a place, or contained in something else.
72. 320 b
73. ᵃ See Met. 1032 a 12 ff.
74. ᵇ Or “ form ”; see Met. l. c. 25 ff.
75. c In 320 a 27–b 12.
76. ᵈ Phys. iv. 6-9.
77. 320 b
78. 321 a
79. a In 320 a 27 ff. ᵇ i. e. steam.
80. b In 320 a 27 ff. ᵇ i. e. steam.
81. 321 a
82. 321b
83. a i.e. the generation of air from water.
84. b i.e. the persistence of that which grows.
85. c In line 22 above.
86. ᵈ With λέγεται understand πλεῖον.
87. 321 b
88. ᵃ i.e. the organic parts.
89. ᵇ i. e. the tissue.
90. 231 b
91. 322 a
92. ¹ τὸ ἀνόμοιον addidi.
93. 322a
94. ¹ ηὐξήθη seclusit Joachim.
95. 2 φθῖνον L: φθίνει F : φθίνῃ H. a And not a growth of already existent tissue.
96. 322 a
97. 322b
98. ¹ ἄνευ ὕλης seclusit Joachim.
99. 2 αὐλός . . . αὐλός . . . αὐλοί Joachim : ἄυλος. . . ἄυλος. . . ἄυλοι codd : tibia . . . tibia . . . tibiae vertit Vatablus.
100. ᵃ In 321 b 22 ff.
101. ᵇ i.e. the Pluralists, like Anaxagoras, Democritus and Plato, who regard Earth, Air, Fire and Water as composed of some prior constituents.
102. c i.e. other Pluralists, like Empedocles, who regard them as actual elements.
103. 322 b
104. 323 a
105. ᵃ Fr. 2 (Diels).
106. 323 a
107. a Phys. 226 b 21-23.
108. 323 a
109. 323 b
110. 323 b
111. ¹ εἴ τε Bonitz : εἴτε Bekker.
112. 323 b
113. 324 a
114. 324 a
115. ᵃ i.e. immediately next to that which is moved.
116. 324 a
117. 324 b
118. a Of which the two opposites are species.
119. ᵇ Such as “health ” or “disease.”
120. 324 b
121. 325 a
122. ᵃ Namely, Parmenides and Melissus.
123. 325 a
124. ¹ οὐκ E : οὔτι FHJL.
125. a i.e. the Monists.
126. 325 a
127. 325 b
128. 325 b
129. ᵃ i. e. Leucippus and the other Atomists.
130. ᵇ i.e. the Atomists.
131. 325 b
132. 326 a
133. ¹ ταύτῃ τι J : ταύτη τι EL : ταύτη τοι F : ταύτο τι H.
134. ᵃ i.e. of the Atomist.
135. 326 a
136. 326 b
137. ¹ παθητικά EHL: -όν F.
138. See Phys. 190 b 24, 192 a 1 ff.
139. 326 b
140. a i.e. the body is none the less impenetrable, even if it is held that the pores, though they contain bodies, are themselves, qua pores, empty channels.
141. b i.e. the very fact that a body is everywhere divisible makes it possible to open up a channel in it.
142. 326 b
143. 327 a
144. a It is difficult to extract any meaning from this sentence as it stands. Joachim supposes a lacuna after τῇ δὲ μή.
145. 327 a
146. 327 b
147. ᵃ The other two being ἁφή (ch. 6) and ποιεῖν καὶ πάσχειν (chs. 7-9).
148. 327 b
149. a i.e. “white” and “knowledge” cannot exist by them.
150. 327 b
151. 328 a
152. 328 a
153. 1 δ' EL.
154. ² μέμικται F : μεμῖχθαι E : δεῖ μεμῖχθαί τι L.
155. One of the Argonauts, famous for his keen sight (Apollonius Rhodius i. 153 ff.).
156. 328 a
157. 328 b
158. 328 b