THEOPHRASTUS’ METAPHYSICS.
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من قبل انه من اشياء متضادة وفی اشياء متضادة
since it is of contraries and in contraries.
xi. b. 15, §34, οὔτε γὰρ τὸ βέλτιον οὔτε τὸ τινὸς χάριν:
فان هذه تقصد . . . الافضل وان جعلت من . . . ويبعث اماما ضروريا
for these things intend . .. the better, and if they are regarded . .
The MS. represented by Yahya was clearly better than any existing.
Although the amount to be obtained from these fragments is not as great as might be wished, it is still interesting to find them confirm some scholars’ conjectures.
No. xxiii. Plato’s de legibus is of course wholly spurious; the passages quoted by Dr. Ethé show this.
