Sources and Critical Notes.

Fr. 1-5. The passage giving these fragments, as they have been called, contains little that is not found in the remaining fragments, and in spite of the fact that it is given as a direct quotation, it seems best to regard it as a condensed statement of the opinions of Melissos. V. Zeller, Vorsokr. Phil. 607, n. 1, and Pabst, de Meliss. Fragmentis, Bonn 1889.

Fr. 7. D omits καὶ... γινόμενον. Simplicius writes γινόμενον, Diels would restore γενόμενον regularly, and compares Spengel ad Eudem. fr. p. 18, 18. DE ἔχει, aF ἔχον.

Fr. 15. aF ἅμα, E ἀλλὰ.

Fr. 16. aD ὂν εἴη, EF οὖν εἴη, Brandis suggests ὂν ἔστι. F δὲ μὴ ὂν· Cf. 19 r 87, 6.

Fr. 11. aF γίγνοιτο. E οὐκέτι, omits ἂν. E omits δὲ after τὸ. aD (F) τριχὶ μιῆ, E τριᵡ μὴ ἦ. Vulg. from Brandis εἰ τοίνυν τρισμυρίοισι ἔτεσι. F παρόντι for παντί.

Fr. 12. D μετὰ τὸ κοσμηθῆναι: a ἀπολεῖται: DF μετακοσμηθέντων ἐόντων: a γάρ, DFE γε: a ἀλγεινόν (twice): D οὐκ for κοὐκ: DF ὠυτὸς, aE ὁ αὐτὸς.

Fr. 14. Cf. Simpl. 40, 12. E πλέον et passim, Text follows aD: DF κενώτερον, E κοινότερον: a omits οὖν.

Fr. 6. E εἰ τύχοι νῦν, D εἰ τύχη, aF εἰ τοίνυν. Diels suggests ὅτε τοίνυν; cf. 109, 20. DE οὐδὲν, aF μηδὲν.

Fr. 17. Vulg. χρή: Simpl. ζῷον, Aristokl. ζῶν (twice): Aristokl. εἶναι ἐχρῆν, καὶ τὸ ἐὸν τοιοῦτον, οἷον πρῶτον ἔδοξεν ἡμῖν εἶναι, Simpl. omits πάντα and ἀληθῆ: Aristokl. ἕτερον, ἀλλ’ εἶναι ὅμοιον, οἷόν περ ἐστὶ ἕκαστον, Simpl. omits ἔστιν: Bergk ὁμουρέων, digito conterminus, aptatus, MSS. τὸ μέσον, corr. Brandis, Gesch. d. Phil. i. 403: Vulg. εἴη.

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