624 Simplicius de Ccslo, Ed. Venet. Fol. 147 b. 0)9 o ZovOo^ eXeyev. Fol. 148 a. ' Otl c€ ciaKfJiveTai to irvp ck rrj^ aaoKos o ^ev Q€o(ppacrTo9 awo toov oCJyOaXjULWv tov avOpooirov, tol^ (pXoya^ K€')(^(jopiaOac SiffyetTai' ^eyeOto^ 6 'AXe^avSpo^ iaTpo<s €^0L cieyrjaaTo^ air avopo^ icr^LaoLKov irvp e^eXOeiv airo tov tay^Lov^ KUL KaTaKavaai xd? ox^et??^^ ev w Kal eTravae to ttclOo^* e^cpaivovai oe Kal o twv dvOpccKcov oiaOecreL^; cltto tov irvpo^ yivo^evaC Kal o Kavacove^ irvpeTol' cltto ^vXov Se Trvp e/c- fiaXXovai^ BaTepov twv ^vXcjov co^ TepeTpov ev OaTepto ttg- pi(jTp€(povT€^' OTL 06 ytj ewTTCLp'^ei TovTOL^^ (7rj/uaiv€i 7] ^6Ta TOV e^irprjcTfxov TeCppa' KaTaCpavrj^ oe Kal rj Ke'^wpiaixev^} vypoTrj^' KaL o et^aTjunXoinevo^ dtjp. Fol. 157 a. Kal ctj Kal UpoKXo^ o €k AvKia^ 09 T/9 ^1/ oXiyov TTpo e^LOv tov YlXaTcoi^o^ otaoo^o9^ (ivfiXiov avveypaylreVy Ta9 evTavOa tov AptaTOTeXov^ evaTacreL^ ciaXvwv^ e^o^e /uoi KaXw^ e^etv ma fipa'^ecov w^ oJov re, Td9 Xvaei^ eKeiva^ Ta^^ evaTaaeatu TrajOacrfrayat. The next of the Oxford MSS. in value is that of New College; for the inspection of which I feel indebted to the Warden and Fellows of that Society. It is a folio of 36S leaves, and contains the whole work, with the exception of a small portion of the Fourth Book. It is more elegantly written than the Corpus MS., but probably of the same age. The readings which it exhibits much more nearly resemble those of the Turin copy, without however being precisely the same. I have noted some of these variations in the verses of Empedocles. Should any scholar ever contemplate another edition of the commentary of Simplicius, he could not have recourse to better materials than those afforded by these two Oxford MSS'^ The Bodleian Library has a MS. of Simplicius Auctar. T. III. 20, in folio, of the l6th century, but it contains only the first Book without the preface. In the Saville Collection, 7^ The Paraphraser must have read ofifxaTa for ci-pw^aTa, 75 The Libraries of Corpus and New College are besides both rich in MSS. of the other Aristotelian commentators.
