TEXTUAL NOTES

Variations from the Oxford Classical Text

TIMAEUS

25d5: Reading ĸατά βραχέoς (Y, Cornford).

28aI: Omitting εί with some MSS and ancient commentators.

35a4-5: Retaining ά πέρι (MSS and most ancient citations) and reading ĸατά (A, P, W, Y, John of Stobi). Literally: ‘Next, in the case of identity and difference, in their case too he introduced [it] as intermediate . . .’.

36c3: Reading (Waterfield), πέριξ . . . being equivalent by tmesis to περιέβαλευ.

39a1–2: Reading ίούσαυ τε ĸαì ĸρατουμέυηυ (Y² and recent editors).

39a4: Reading (Waterfield).

39b3: Reading (Archer-Hind).

40a5: Reading Φóρησιυ (Waterfield).

40c1: Omitting (F, Y, Plutarch).

4od1: Omitting , which has little MS support and is clearly an ‘ideological emendation’ (John Dillon’s phrase, American Journal of Philology, no (1989), 50-72). For Plato’s commitment to astrology, see my article in Culture and Cosmos, 3: 2 (1999), 3-15.

41a7: Reading θεοί, θείωυ . . ., (Robinson, Zeyl).

42e2: Omitting the comma after (Cornford).

47d1: Reading (Cornford).

48b8: Adding ĸαì before (West).

48d3: Reading (Hackforth).

49e3: Reading ĸαὶ τὴν τοῦ ὧδε (Cook Wilson).

51a1: Adding before or after (Cook Wilson).

54a6: Reading (Waterfield).

54b2: Reading instead of (Hermann).

57b4: Reading (Y) . . . συυιόvτα (Bury).

59d4: Reading τε ĸαì άέρι (Waterfield).

6od4: Reading έπιμύλιοv instead of λίθος (Waterfield, taking λίθος as a gloss), or ἔχωυ λίθος <μυλίας> (Cornford, referring to Plato, Hippias Major 292d5, and comparing this passage with Aristotle, Meteorologica 383b10 ff.).

60e1–2: Reading τὀ λεγὀμευου. (Waterfield).

61b5: Reading (Cook Wilson).

66a2: Retaining with all the MSS (see, roughly, G. M. A. Grube, ‘The Sense of Taste in Timaeus 65b–66c’, Classical Philology, 25 (1930), 72–5).

67a1: Reading (John of Stobi).

71c7: Reading πρὀς ἐαυτὀ (A, P).

74c2: Reading (F, W, Y, Galen).

84a2: Reading (with Zeyl) (A, W) ἐξ ἐκεἰυωυ (W, Y) ἄμα (Stallbaum) ĸαì .

85e9: Transposing the clause οἶου . . . ἐκπἰπτουσα from a couple of lines later (Waterfield).

86e6: Adding before καì ὄσοι (Waterfield).

88a4: Deleting (Madvig).

89c3: Deleting (Lindau).