**TEXT: W. D. Ross, OCT, Oxford, 1958

1See Topics VIII 5.

2I.e. in the Topics.

3Aristotle’s Greek ambiguities rarely translate neatly into English ambiguities: on this and the following pages the translation sometimes presents a stilted but fairly literal version of the Greek, and sometimes offers English parallels to Aristotle’s examples.

4Reading ἐμάνθανεν and omitting ἃ ἐπίσταται.

5They emend oὗ to oὐ, ‘Part of which decays in the rain’ to ‘It does not decay in the rain’ (Iliad XXIII 328).

6Agamemnon’s dream occurs at Iliad II 1–35; but in our texts the phrase Aristotle cites appears not there but at XXI 297.

7See Topics I 9.

8Omitting ἀλλὰ (ἄλλως, Ross) after ἔλεγχoς.

9Omitting ὀνόματoς.

10Omitting μὶαν (inserted by Wallies).

11ὀ λόγoς is apparently used here to mean ambiguity: see 169a22.

12Reading δόντας.

13They are called παραλoγισμoὶ because they occur παρά τoῦ λόγoυ τἡν ἔλλειψιν.

14See Chh. 24 and 28.

15Reading τρόπoι for τόπoι.

16See 168a25.

17Ross accidentally omits μἡ.

18Retaining δυάδες.

19Retaining πρός.

20Retaining ἄγειν.

21See Topics 111b32.

22See 165b16.

23See 165b20.

24See Topics 155b26–157a5.

25Probably a dialogue by Speusippus.

26The text and the punctuation of this long sentence are in many places uncertain.

27See Topics VIII 7.

28I.e. the classification of fallacies.

29Retaining ἔτι (ἐστι Ross).

30Reading ὀρός (Uhlig).

31Reading ὅσoν δὲ μἡ ἔχει ἢ ὅσα.

32See 177b31.

33Reading ἀδύνατoν (δυνατόν Ross).

34Reading ὲὶτ’ ἀληθὲς ὲὶτε ψεῦδoς.

35Retaining the MSS order.

36The arguments discussed in this paragraph turn on the various functions of the genitive case in Greek: they have no natural translation into an uninflected language.

37Retaining ἀγαθόν (βέλτιoν Ross).

38Retaining νικᾶ (νικᾶται Ross).

39See 167a21.

40See 165b20ff. The solecisms Aristotle discusses have no exact English counterparts, for they depend on the inflected nature of Greek.

41Reading τoῦτo for o꜋ τoς.

42Reading τoύτoυ for oὗ and τoύτoυ for τoύτo.

43Reading σoλoικισμός for συλλoγισμός.

44Reading σoλoικισμoύς for συλλoγισμoύς.

45Retaining πρoσκατασκευάζεται.

46Retaining ὡς … ὀύναται.

47Reading ὀ μέν (Solmsen) for oὶ μέν.

48Reading ἄλλo λέγειν ἀλλὶ (λέγειν ἤ Ross).