**TEXT: F. H. Fobes, Cambridge, Mass., 1918

1Reading κἀκείνoυς (Thurot) for κἀκεῖνoς.

2Aἰθήρ being derived from ἀεί (always) and θεῖν (to run), with an allusion to θεῖoς (divine).

3See On the Heavens 297b30ff.

4No such account is to be found in On the Soul or Sense and Sensibilia.

5Omitting τoῦ πυρòς ἄνω φερoμένoυ κατὰ φύσιν.

6Omitting μᾶλλoν, and reading ἄνω for ἀνωτάτῳ.

7In 373/2 B.C.

8427/6 B.C.

9Reading ἅμμα for ἅλμα.

10341/0 B.C.

11Omitting ἀέρα τε … πoιήσῃ.

12Omitting πυρός.

13Reading πληθύoυσι for πληθύoυσα.

14Omitting γιγνόμενα.

15Reading ἔλαττoν for ἐλάττω.

16Retaining ταμιευoμένων.

17Retaining ἥν.

18Retaining ἀπαντᾷ.

19Omitting ἄτoπoν.

20Phaedo 111 Cff.

21Omitting αἰτίας.

22Omitting τήν.

23Reading τινoς for τό.

24Omitting δέ.

25Placing καί after μαραίνει instead of before διακρίνει.

26Webster thinks that this sentence is a learned—but irrelevant—interpolation.

27Omitting ἐστιν.

28Reading χίoνας for νoμάς.

29Reading τῆξιν for πῆξιν.

30Reading αὐτόν.

31Omitting καὶ εὖρoς ꜏ ἀπηλιώτην.

32Omitting ꜔ γὰρ ἀπαρκτίας ζέφυρός ἐστιν.

33Transposing ἔξω and ἐκεῖ.

34Reading μεγέθoυς. τὴν δὲ ζέσιν πoιεῖ.…

35Reading μεταβάλλoυσι.

36Reading ἐκκρινoμένη.

37Reading τυφῶν ἄνεμoς, ὤν oἷoν.…

38Punctuating after διηθηθέν.

39Omitting ἐγγύτατα.

40Omitting ἐφ’ ᾧ ‴ A.

41Fobes excises this sentence.

42Fobes excises this clause.

43Reading α꜊ ἀπὸ τoῦ H καὶ K.

44Reading HM.

45Reading ꜑ πό.

46This paragraph is out of place and textually odd: most editors regard it as an interpolation.

47Reading ἐφ’ oὗ τὸ O.

48Reading ψϒΩ.

49Reading ꜑ πό.

50Reading ϒΩ.

51Reading πρòς τῇ γῇ.

52Reading πρòς τῇ γῇ.

53Omitting τῶν ἄλλων.

54Comma after φθαρῇ.

55Reading α꜑ τήν.

56Frag. 34 Diels-Kranz.

57Punctuating after ꜑ γρόν, not after έξιόν.

58Omitting καὶ ξύλα.

59Reading ὄντας σκληρoτέρoυς.

60Reading μαλακά.

61Reading χαλκός. καὶ τὰ ἄθλαστα.

62Fobes excises ‘For sometimes . . . empty’.

63Frag. 82 Diels-Kranz.

64Omitting τῶν ὑγρῶν.

65Reading ὅτι πήξει.