[طبـ]ـيعة قائمة وان كان ههنا جوهر ما اخر اشد تقدما وفضلا فقد ينبغی ان نروم القول فيه هل هو واحد فی العدد [او وا]حد فی النوع او واحد فی الجنس والاولی اذا كانت طبيعتها طبيعة مندا ان يكون وجودها فی اشياء كثيرة زايدة اللهم الا ان تكون الائل وجودها
for even number itself, much less anything else, which people believe . . . . has not an abiding [nature]. And if there be here any other substance of greater priority and excellence, we should endeavour to speak about it, whether it be one in number or [one] in species or one in genus. And it is most probable, since its nature is the nature of a beginning, that its existence is in many, abundant things, unless the first parts of its existence . . . .
p. v. a, §5, ἡ κυκλικὴ κίνησις. Usener’s insertion of the word κίνησις; is distinctly confirmed by the corresponding fragment,
هی طبيعة السوب [التشوق read] التی عنها تكون حركة الدور
the nature οf . . . from which there comes the circular motion.
U. v. b. 18, §10, ὥσπερ ἄδεκτόν τι καὶ ἀσύνθετον εἶναι.
Arab. fragment غير قابل ولا محتمل للارتباط
not receiving nor enduring to be tied together.
This confirms Usener’s conjecture ἀσύνδετον which the Arabic exactly represents.
U. v. b. 23, συμβαίνει γὰρ οἷον κατὰ συμβεβηκός κτλ.
كانها عرض لزمها عن الحركة الدورية
it is like an accident which attends her from the circular motion.
The words καὶ εἰς τοῦς τόπους μεταβολάς were omitted by the translator.
