^{page 67 note 1} I shall refer to this treatise by the abbreviation md. My other abbreviations are mostly as in Liddell and Scott, ed. 9.

^{page 67 note 2} Cf. the passages quoted in Ideler's edition of the Meteorologica (1834), ii. 347–89.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 3} Hammer-Jensen, , ‘Das sog. IV. Buch der Meteorologie des A.’, Hermes, I (1915), 113–36Google Scholar; Ross, , Aristotle, p. 11Google Scholar; Jaeger, , Aristoteles, pp. 412 f.; cf. Regenbogen, ‘Theophrastos von Eresos’, R.E. Suppl. VII, col. 1418.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 4} Coutant, Alexander of Aphrodisias: Commentary on Book IV of Aristotle's Meteorologica; Columbia dissertation, 1936 (I have not been able to see this book). Lee, introd. to the Loeb ed. of Meteor., 1952, pp. xiii–xxiGoogle Scholar. Düring, ‘Aristotle's Chemical Treatise’, etc., Göteborgs Högskolas Arsskrift, 1 (1944), no. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 5} P.A. 649²18, cf. md 380²7, etc.; G.A. 735^b13 ff., cf. md 383^b2O ff. Also G.A. 734²24 ff., cf. md 390^b2 ff.

^{page 68 note 1} In addition Hammer-Jensen's essay is marred by a number of small errors and mistranslations, of which During (p. 107) gives a comprehensive list. It is a pity that his censorious eye has not saved him from serious blunders of his own.

^{page 68 note 2} md 386^b2, +387²15; contrast Arist.Phys. 217^a20ff.

^{page 69 note 1} md 384^b10, 385^a29, ^b19, 24; 381^b1˜ Thphr. Ign. 74.

^{page 69 note 2} 385^b20; probably the walls of the pores are meant.

^{page 69 note 3} 387^a20.

^{page 69 note 4} md 387^a12,

^{page 69 note 5} In accordance with his usual practice Olympiodorus does not mention his name, but refers to him as cf. the index to the Berlin edition, s.v.

^{page 69 note 6} G.C. 326^b29–35; in his commentary on this passage Philoponos uses the expression (p. 184. 19).

^{page 70 note 1} Joachim, H. H., edition of G.C., 1922, p. 172.Google Scholar

^{page 70 note 2} G.C. 1. 8. 324^b25–35. 326^b6–28, cf. Joachim, ad loc.

^{page 71 note 1} Cf. Verdenius, and Waszink, , Aristotle, On Coming-to-be and Passing-away; Some Comments (Leiden, 1946), pp. 52–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{page 72 note 1} e.g. G.A. 782^b1, but not 747^a11, 773^a15; cf. Index Arist. 622^a20.

^{page 72 note 2} Note in this connexion that is regularly listed as a homoeomerous substance, e.g. P.A. 647^b17, md 388^a17; cf. Index Arist. 824^a25.

^{page 72 note 3} Düring distorts the sense when he writes that Aristotle ‘has observed that water trickles through pottery, especially when it is imperfectly burnt’.

^{page 72 note 4} Düring (p. 76) proposes to read

^{page 72 note 5} Meteor. 2. 3. 358^b18–21, 34.

^{page 72 note 6} Arist, . G.C. 1. 10Google Scholar; cf. Joachim, (Journ. Philol. xxix [1904], 72–86).Google Scholar

^{page 72 note 7} Cf. D'Arcy Thompson on H.A. 590^a24 (in the Oxford transl.); Lee on Meteor. 359^a5; Diels, (Hermes, xl [1905], 310–16).Google Scholar

^{page 73 note 1} Thphr. Ign. 28, 38, 42, 45, 61; Od. 13, 19, 40; cf. Lap. 19 and Strato, fr. 56 init. Also (Arist.) Col. 793^a24, and in the Problems.

^{page 73 note 2} The same doctrine occurs at md 382^b32, 383^a7. 385^a27.

^{page 73 note 3} md 382^b32, 385^a23, cf. Thphr. Lap. 3.

^{page 73 note 4} md 382^b19, 383^a18, cf. Thphr. Ign. 8.

^{page 73 note 5} md 382^b8 ff., cf. Thphr. Ign. 14, etc., Arist. Meteor., 348^b2 with Lee's note.

^{page 73 note 6} Arist. Cael. 286^a26, G.C. 318^b17,Metaph. 1070^b12.

^{page 73 note 7} Hammer-Jensen (p. 128) and Düring (p. 70) agree in thinking that this is a deliberate correction of md 380^a7; Düring is forced to suppose that Aristotle had changed his mind after writing md. But G.C., which is certainly earlier than md, contains the same doctrine.

^{page 75 note 1} Regcnbogen, , ‘Theophrastos’, R.E. Suppl. VII, col. 1416. 42.Google Scholar

^{page 75 note 2} 378^a17 ff., cf. Alexander, ad loc., p. 213. 22; Regenbogen 1418.

^{page 76 note 1} Contrast Arist. Cat. 9^a28 ff.

^{page 76 note 2} Diog. Laert. 5. 45; cf. the remarks of F. Patricius (from Discussiones Peripateticae [1581], vol. iGoogle Scholar) quoted in Ideler's edition of Meteor. vol. ii, p. 379.Google Scholar

^{page 76 note 3} md 384^b24 ff. ˜Arist, . Meteor. 3. 6Google Scholar. 378^a17 ff., cf. Thphr. Lap. 1–3; Alexander, in Meteor. 213. 22, 178. 14, Olympiodorus, in Meteor. 266. 34.Google Scholar

^{page 77 note 1} Aristotle does not refer to the ground covered by md. At 339^a5 he mentions phenomena arising through among those he intends to explain, but he probably means snow, hail, and so on, as Alexander says (in Meteor. 3. 25Google Scholar ff.); cf. Lee and the Oxford translators ad loc., and Capelle (Hermes xlvii [1912], 533).Google Scholar

^{page 77 note 2} Peck, P.A. Loeb ed. intr. p. 9, after Jaeger (Hermes xlviii [1913], 38). Jaeger points out diat Aristotle also seems to have delivered a shorter course which went straight from P.A. to G.A., leaving out the intervening sections.Google Scholar

^{page 77 note 3} Themistius, in de An. 108. 11 = Thphr. fr. 53 b Wimmer, fr. 1 Hicks–Barbotin.

^{page 78 note 1} 384^b24–385^a11, cf. Thphr. Lap. 1–3.

^{page 78 note 2} Cf. Olympiodorus, ad Ioc, p. 319. 35; there seems to have been some controversy among the ancients about the purpose of the repetition.

^{page 78 note 3} Exceptions are at 381^b1, 384^b10, 20.

^{page 78 note 4} Alexander, pp. 86. 32, 89. 7, on Arist. Meteor. 358^b22, 359^b20, refers to a treatise by which Theophrastus’ book is probably meant; cf. Regenbogen 1423. 4 ff. In the same way ideas found in Meteor. 1.5, 3. 4 are elaborated in ps.-Arist. Col. 2–3. The authorship of this work is disputed, but on the whole Theophrastus is the most likely candidate.

^{page 79 note 1} Strato, frs. 54–67 in Wehrli, , Die Schule des Aristoteles, vol. vGoogle Scholar. Sponges are used to illustrate compression in fr. 56, as in md 386^b6–8. See further Diels, , Sitz.-Ber. Acad. Berl., 1893, pp. 101–27Google Scholar, Capelle, , R.E. iv a, col. 289 ff.Google Scholar