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appear in the same way to the inhabitants of the [different] regions of the world, but
the Milky Way appears in the same way to [all] inhabitants of the world.
Although the arguments are presented in a summarised form in Cand. they are
recognisably the same as those given by Olympiodorus, so that one is led to
suspect that the refutation in Cad. is based on the continuation of the scholion
given above (Nic. 14.19-22) which has been omitted in the Cambridge manuscript
but was still there in the manuscript of Nic. used by Barhebraeus.
2.2. Ps.-Aristotle. De mundo
Another Greek work which is occasionally mentioned by BakoS in his footnotes
is the Pseudo-Aristotelian De mundo. While BakoS seems to have consillted only
the Greek original of this work, the close agreement in the wording &.ween
Cand. and the Syriac version of the De mundo attributed to Sergius of Rbh-'Ayna
and published by de Lagarde leaves little doubt that it was that version which was
available to Barhebraeus.
On thunder and lightning: Cand. 1 18.10- 1 19.3
Sometimes materials taken from De mundo are found combined with those taken
from Nic. Given below is a passage for which BakoS names the De mundo as the
source. On closer examination it turns out to be an amalgam of materials taken
from the De mundo and Nic.
Cand. 118.10-119.3 (underline: agreement with Nic.; italic: with De mundo):
& & & . * & a c r a * + ~ . ~ ~ l a o D & ~ + ~ ~ Q
r ~ + t u ~ ~ ~ & ~ + . ~ ~ a a A u ~ t
~ l F w ~ * . ~ M & d ~ & ~ * ~ & x
&-, &l & +l ,A* + &= "&ac- +.a A& ehB1yan. CvA6,s-
. ,J&Gd A& &a"Jol &fa CbU
[& 6 Ciqek]
(1) w-hdcanna kad ra'mfi ellta w d-barqa, (b) barqa men qdamaw metrgesh, (2a) b-hay
d-meshtamcana mkan I-metqaddamu wa-1-metcb%rii men me@zyh$ (c) yattira'it kad
haw d-me@zC yattir qallil nehwe, hanaw nuranfi, (d) w-haw d-meshtma' nehwe bsir
bqalliluteh 1-met% lwat mashmaLtii, ak meddem d-tallil ba-mnawaeh. (3a) wa-d-hmip
hzaG men mashmact8 (b) idiLa men aylen d-m&Cn b-liqe, (c) da-1-qa1a da-mhotti
qadmfiytti batar hzatL da-mhota trayyanfiyG shfim'inan.
(1) And thus although thunder is the cause of lightning, @) &king is persei~ed
before it, (2a) because the audible [meshtamC~] can be preceded and overtuken by
the visible [methazyiinii], (c) especially when what is seen is swifer, ie. fiery, (d) but
what is heard is less in its swiftness in coming to hemMng, like something which is