The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts, 2014
By: Tarán, Leonardo
Title The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Revue d’histoire des textes
Volume 9
Pages 351-358
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarán, Leonardo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper tries to establish that supralinear omicron is not, as most elementary introductions to Greek paleography have it, a simple abbreviation for the ending omicron-sigma. Rather, it was originally a symbol for suspension that later medieval scribes used also for other subordinated purposes which are impossible to classify. Some examples will be given in what follows. For a long time this interpretation had seemed so obvious to me that during a 1985 colloquium on Simplicius in Paris, it surprised me that some members of the audience objected that supralinear omicron is simply an abbreviation for omicron-sigma. As this occurred during my discussion of a passage of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, and as several of my examples come from that work, it is convenient to give a list of the manuscripts used by Diels and also of additional prim ary witnesses either rejected by, or not known to him. [introduction]

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Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy, 1978
By: Tarán, Leonardo
Title Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy
Type Article
Language English
Date 1978
Journal Hermes
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 73-99
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarán, Leonardo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
n I904 E. HAMBRUCH2 tried to show that sometimes Aristotle himself uses synonymna in the Speusippean sense [...] and that in so doing he was influenced by Speusippus. This thesis of HAMBRUCH has been accepted by several scholars, including LANG, STENZEL, and CHERNISS 3; and, though some doubts about its soundness were expressed from different points of view4, it was only in I97I that Mr. Jonathan BARNES5 made a systematic assault on it. He contends, in the first place, that Speusippus's conception of homonyma and synonyma is essentially the same as that of Aristotle, the slight differences between their respective definitions of each being trivial, and, secondly, that even though in a few places Aristotle does use homonyma and synonyma as properties of linguistic terms, this is due to the fact that Aristotle's use of these words is not as rigid as the Categories would lead one to believe; he could not have been influenced by Speusippus because the latter conceived homonymy and synonymy as properties of things and, in any case, if influence of one on the other be assumed, it could as well have been Aristotle that influenced Speusippus. Though I believe that his two main contentions are mistaken, I am here mainly concerned with the first part of BARNES' thesis; for, if he were right in believing that for Speusippus homonyma and synonyma are properties of things and not of names or linguistic terms, then HAMBRUCH'S notion that Speusippus did influence Aristotle when the latter uses synonymon as a property of names would be wrong, even though BARNES himself were mistaken in his analysis of the Aristotelian passages he reviews in the second part of his paper. [pp. 73 f.]

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Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy, 1978
By: Tarán, Leonardo
Title Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy
Type Article
Language English
Date 1978
Journal Hermes
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 73-99
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarán, Leonardo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
n  I904 E.  HAMBRUCH2 tried  to  show  that sometimes  Aristotle  himself 
uses  synonymna in  the  Speusippean sense  [...] and  that  in  so  doing he was influenced by  Speusippus. This thesis  of HAMBRUCH has been accepted 
by  several  scholars,  including LANG, STENZEL, and CHERNISS 3; and, though 
some doubts about its soundness were expressed from different points of view4, 
it  was  only  in  I97I that  Mr. Jonathan  BARNES5 made  a  systematic  assault 
on it. He contends, in the first place, that  Speusippus's conception of homonyma 
and synonyma is essentially the same as that  of Aristotle, the slight differences 
between  their respective  definitions of  each being  trivial,  and,  secondly,  that 
even  though  in  a  few  places  Aristotle  does  use  homonyma and  synonyma as 
properties of linguistic terms, this is due to  the fact  that Aristotle's use of these 
words is not  as rigid as the  Categories would lead one to  believe;  he  could not 
have  been  influenced by  Speusippus because the  latter  conceived homonymy 
and synonymy  as properties of things  and, in  any  case, if  influence of  one on 
the  other  be  assumed,  it  could  as  well  have  been  Aristotle  that  influenced 
Speusippus. 
Though  I  believe  that  his  two  main  contentions  are mistaken,  I  am  here 
mainly  concerned with  the  first part of BARNES' thesis;  for,  if he  were  right 
in  believing  that  for  Speusippus  homonyma and  synonyma are  properties of 
things  and  not  of  names  or  linguistic  terms,  then  HAMBRUCH'S notion  that 
Speusippus did influence Aristotle when the latter uses synonymon as a property 
of  names would be  wrong, even  though  BARNES himself were mistaken in his 
analysis of the Aristotelian passages he reviews in the second part of his paper.  [pp. 73 f.]

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The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts, 2014
By: Tarán, Leonardo
Title The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Revue d’histoire des textes
Volume 9
Pages 351-358
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarán, Leonardo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper tries to establish that supralinear omicron is not, as most elementary introductions to Greek paleography have it, a simple abbreviation for the ending omicron-sigma. Rather, it was originally a symbol for suspension that later medieval scribes used also for other subordinated purposes which are impossible to classify. Some examples will be given in what follows. For a long time this interpretation had seemed so obvious to me that during a 1985 colloquium on Simplicius in Paris, it surprised me that some members of the audience objected that supralinear omicron is simply an abbreviation for omicron-sigma. As this occurred during my discussion of a passage of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, and as several of my examples come from that work, it is convenient to give a list of the manuscripts used by Diels and also of additional prim ary witnesses either rejected by, or not known to him. [introduction]

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