VIII

PREFACE.

The initial Greek text is a biographical note: "...remaining at the height of his influence among the Christians of Trebizond. When he also departed from among men, it was carried away... (I could not read the word) to Constantinople, and I, Demetrios, an English physician, bought this along with his other books."

The places where the Paris manuscript alone has handed down the true reading are few, for example, p. 283, 10 τῇ γε at least to this, 319, 12 τὰ μόρια the parts, 327, 5 τὸ γὰρ for the, 341, 9 ἂν would, 345, 13 κομπάζουσι they boast, 375, 16 ἐκδιδάσκειν to teach thoroughly, 376, 18 πάντη entirely, 380, 6 φωνοῦντος sounding, 383, 21 ἐδεήθημεν we needed, 385, 14 ἑαυτῆς of itself, 420, 1 θαυμάσειν to wonder at, 424, 8 ἀποφύσειν to sprout forth, 427, 8 δυσανάτρεπτα difficult to overturn, 462, 18 πρόσθεν before. It generally agrees with the Urbinas or the Laurentianus, but it has not been transcribed from either. You have notable examples of the relationship that exists between B Parisino 2154 and U Urbinas: p. 200, 24 φύσει by nature, 231, 7 ἡμῶν θεὸς our god, likewise 389, 9, 252, 4 ἐκκενώσαντας having emptied, 325, 12 χιτῶνα tunic, 326, 10 εὐκίνητον easily moved, 342, 9 ἑπτὰ seven, 344, 23 ὅσοις μὲν as many as, 379, 8 ἑκάστου of each, 385, 16 ἁπτομένου touching, 424, 5 ἐγκαρσίας transverse, 24 μόριον part, 455, 9 ἐγκεφάλου of the brain, 465, 21 τῶν αἰσθητηρίων of the sensory organs. I would like you to examine these examples of the consensus between B and L Laurentianus: p. 202, 14 ὑποβεβλημένην placed underneath, 22 βδάλλειν to milk, 215, 3 ὑποφύεται ἥβης grows under the pubes, 234, 7 ἑκάστῳ add. added to each, 239, 10 ἀνελάμβανε τὴν τροφήν was taking up the nourishment, 257, 11 ἐρεῖν to say, 258, 14 ἐρώης motion/force, 267, 27 τὰς κοινωνίας the associations, 268, 6 παμπόλλῳ very much, 286, 15 δήπου surely, 475, 20 ἐσφήνωτο was wedged.

5. The second Paris manuscript 985 (C), a paper manuscript of the 15th century with 350 leaves, which contains these writings: 1. A fragment from Aristophanes' Plutus, 2. An anonymous explanation of the histories mentioned by St. Gregory Nazianzen in his funeral oration for St. Basil. Starts: "The sophists and rhetoricians of the Greeks." Ends: "the snakelike body of the navels," fol. 4a–11b, 3. The solutions to certain difficulties and questions of the most wise and learned Lord John Argyropoulos, which a certain philosopher and physician in Cyprus asked, fol. 12a–24b, 4. Galen, On the Difference of Fevers, Books I and II, fol. 26a–71a (leaf 25 is blank), 5. Stephanus, On the Difference of Fevers, fol. 71a–77a, 6. Galen, On Diagnosis from Dreams, fol. 77b–78a (leaf 79 is blank), 7. Aristotle, Physics Problems, fol. 80–224, to which