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the permission of Messrs. Teubner I have followed in this translation the text of W. Christ (Leipzig, 1895). All divergences from his readings have been mentioned in the notes, except that I have frequently left it to the rendering itself to show that I have not followed his punctuation or his excisions. The commentaries of Alexander and Bonitz have been my greatest help; but I owe much also to Bullinger's notes, and to the translation of Book Z, chaps, i-xi, by the late Mr. Richard Shute.

I wish to acknowledge my deep obligations to Mr. Bywater and Prof. Cook Wilson, whose opinions on several difficult passages have been most kindly placed at my disposal; to the members of the Oxford Aristotelian Society, for what I learnt from them during our reading of Books M and N; to Mr. H. H. Joachim, Fellow of Merton College, for the loan of his valuable notes on Books Z, H, and Θ; to Mr. C. Cannan, Secretary to the Delegates of the University Press, and Mr. R. P. Hardie, of Edinburgh University, whose comments on various parts of the work have been of the greatest assistance to me; to my co-editor Mr. J. A. Smith, and to Dr. G. R. T. Ross, who have read the whole book both in manuscript and in proof, and whose suggestions I have adopted in countless passages; and to my wife, who has read the whole book in proof, and has aided me very greatly in points of style.

W. D. R.