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THE GRECO-SYRIAC AND ARABIC SOURCES OF BARHEBRAEUS' MINERALOGY 257
21 -29).
*Mock-sun: 116.'4-9: < Mab. 11.1 84.15-20 (cf. Shifa" 56.3-5) + Mab. 11.177.4-8 (<
Shifa" 44.4-6)?. - 116.9-12: < Nic. 48.7-11 (< Arist. 372a 10-16). - 116.12-117.1: <
Mab. 11.1 84.2 1- 185.4.
*Rod: 11724: < Mab. II. 186.16- 187.2 (< Shifa" 56.5-9, 11-14).
*Thunder and lightning 117.9-118.1 (realities and appearances [sucr-IlhaggrSgd]): <
Nic. 47.3-5?; cf. DM 144.22-25 (< 395a28-32). - 118.1-5 (thunder): < Mab. 11.1 87.6-10
(cf. Shifa" 67.4-68.4). - 118.6-10 (lightning): < Mab. 11.187.1 1-16 (cf. ShifS" 68.4-8).
- 118.10-119.3 (lightning seen before thunder): < Nic. 42.9-14 (< Arist. 369b 7-1 1) &
DM 144.5-12 (< 395a 16-21). - 119.3-4 (Emped. & Anaxag.): < Nic. 42.14-43.1 1,
esp. 43.4-6 (< Arist. 369b 1 1-370a - 119.4~5 (Clidemus): < Nic. 43.1 1-13 (<
Arist. 370a 10-12). - 1195-6: -.
*Thunderbolt etc.: 119.7 (heading): paqcci < DM 144.15 etc.; keraunds, prEsti5r < Nic.
45.19 etc. - 119.7-9: < Mab. 11-188.2-5 (cf. Shifa" 70.6ff.). - 119.10-11 (argQ): <
Nic. 45.2 1-23 (< Arist. 37 la 19-20.21 -24). - 119.11-120.1 (psolkis): < Nic. 45.23-31
(< Arist. 37 1 a 20-21, 24-29); cf. Mab. 11.188.5-9. - 120.1-3: < Mab. II. 188.9-1 1. -
120.34 (keraun6s): cf. Nic. 45.19, 21 etc. - 120.4-6: < Mab. 11.188.15-17; + Nic.
45.31-46.8 (< Arist. 371a 16-7,29-b 2).
*Shooting stars: 120.7-8 (heading): dokides, larnpikies < Nic. 11.22f.?; + "belsugata
..." < Mab. 11.188.14. - 120.8-11: < Mab. 11.188.15-17 (< ShifS" 68.13-15); +
"sulphureous" < ? - 120.11-12: c Nic. 12.2-3 (< Arist. 342a 3-5, 8-9). - 120.1213: <
Nic. 12.3-4 (< Arist. 342a 1@ 1 1) + "columns" < AB II.222.11- 16, II.224.24-225. l?.
- 120.13-121.1: < Nic. 12.8-9 (< Arist. 342a 34-35). - 120.1-5: < lost passages of
Nic.? (< Arist. 342a 35-36, b 4-1 1, 14-21).
*Comets: 121.6 (heading): ''knwEbF susycim?"' Nic. 12.1 1 etc. - 121.67: < Mab.
11.189.2 (cf. Shifa" 72.18ff.); + II.188.15?. - 121.7-9: < Mab. 11.189.2-3 +; cf. Mab.
11.189.15- 190.4 (< Shifa" 71.15-72.17). - 121.9-10: < Mab. 11.1 89.3-5 (< ShifFi"
73.10-17) + - 121.10-11 (red and black signs): < Mab. 11.189.5-6 (cf. Shifa" 74.3-6).
- 121.11-113: < Mab. 11.189.6-8. - 121.13-122.2 (Democritus etc.): < Nic. 12.11-12,
17- 18 + lost passages? (< Arist. 342b 27-29,342b 29-343a 1).
*Conflagration: 122.34: < Mab. 11.190.5- 10. - 1226-8: -.
*Milky way: 122.9-10 (Aristotle): < Nic. 14.17-18 (< Arist. 346b 5-6). - 12210-12
(Democr. & Anaxag.): < lost passage of Nic.? (< Arist. 345a 25-26). - 122.12-1235
(refutation of Arist.): < lost passage of NN.? (cf. Nic. 14.19-22 [scholion]; < Olymp.
in Mete. 74.17-76.5?). - 1235-6 (Pythagoreans): < Nic. 13.1 1 - 13 (< Arist. 345a
13-16). - 123.64 (contd.): < lost passage of Nic.? (< Arist. 345a 16-19).
*Wind: 123.9-12 (cause of wind): < Mab. 11.190.21-191.2 (cf. ShifS" 58.6-7). - 123.12
124.2 (another cause): < Mab. II. 191.3-5 +. - 124.2-3 (Hippocrates): < Nic. 24.20-21
(cf. Arist. 349a 16-17); + "Stoics" < ?.88 - 1243-6 (dry years): < Nic.? (cf. Nic.
87 The attribution of the view that thunder and lightning are appearances (hag@@) to Emped.
and Anaxag. may be due to a misunderstanding of Nic. 43.4-6, caused by the ambiguity of the
Syriac verb hwa : u A AK . & -Z +- K- p\ /+z 3PLI
. K- AK /*- ("Furthermore, these men say that lightning does not come into being
but [merely] comes into view having been in existence beforehand" or "... lightning does not
exist but [merely] appears ... ; cf. Arist. 369b 32f.. 35f.: ... kdp~ovux np6mpov hpov
trrpiv~&a~ rai pi) yiyveotht, ... ht ~i %=pa miKOV pi) yiyveux~ c3.X Em. ...).
88 An extra source needs to be assumed for the addition of "the Stoics", who are not mentioned