Simplicius
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14
By J.O. Urmson109 It is rather the transparent sphere carrying the moon round the earth which has a concave inner or lower surface. This surface is a place above, because it is the place of the belt of transparent fire where Aristotle believes comets ...
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Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53
By Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan... rationale of his craft, and he would render it useless for the craft. This is just the way that we should go through life in relation to our own instrument: we should supply only what it needs, and in our choice of foods and drinks ...
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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9
By , SimpliciusSo if things are thus, and of the [bodies] which are the same in form in each world some move away from the centre and ... have the same nature [in the many heavens, or ifwe do say this, we must then make one middle and one extremity.] ...
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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 2.10-14
By , SimpliciusMost of those who say that the cosmos is finite, e.g., Empedocles, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Plato, say that the earth lies at the centre.233 But the Pythagoreans contradict this (this is what is meant by 'say ...
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 7
By C. HagenSee Fritz Wehrli, ed., Die Schule des Aristoteles, vol. 8: Eudemos von Rhodos, 2nd ed., Basel-Stuttgart 1969. The present passage is included as Eudemus Fr. 109. The omission is one of the main arguments for the claim that in Eudemus' ...
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4
By , SimpliciusSimplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism.
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8
By Barrie FleetIn Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality.
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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4
By J.O. UrmsonIs the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian's Paraphrase of Theophrastus on Sense Perception, which covers the same subject, will also be translated for comparison.
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2
This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, ...