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 likely to be omitted here by the translator or copyist.

xviii. 1. 1455b 25. The Arabic agrees with the MSS. as to the position of, 'as for things which are from without and certain things from within sometimes.'

xviii. 5. 1456a 19, : Arabic, 'and in the simple matters.'

xix. 2. 1456a 38, : Arabic, 'to prepare the sufferings.'

More doubtful is xvii. 2. 1455a 30, : Arabic, 'in one and the same nature.' The Arabic mode of translation is not decisive as between the MSS. reading and the conjecture , but rather favours the former.

(b) Passages where the conjectural omission of words is apparently supported by the Arabic:—