For ἀποκρίπτεσθαι Dr. Purser suggests ἀποθρύπτεσθαι, which I have rendered; ἀποκύπτεσθαι (Aristoph. Lysis. 1003), ‘to crouch aside’, seems possible. (5) c. 9, 925 B. Perhaps the line of Empedocles may run ἅρματος ὡσπερανεὶ (L. C. P.) χνόη ᾄσσεται. (6) c. 10, 925 E. The MSS. have ἀλλὰ καὶ κινητικὸ ταύτῃ διάστημα τὸ δέον, for which Madvig (_Adv. Crit._, vol. i, p. 665) makes the admirable correction: ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκείνῃ καὶ ταύτῃ δυίστημα δοτέον. (7) c. 14, 927 F. _The growth within._ I read αὔξησιν, which is sometimes confused with ἕξιν. Cp. Ar. _Eth. N._ 3, 14, 149 b 4. (8) c. 19, 932 C. [_the moon ... bodies also_]. The words in brackets have been supplied from the substance of the passage of Aristotle mentioned in the footnote. (9) c. 19, 932 C. Posidonius’ definition is introduced because it contains an admission that the moon casts a shadow, and is therefore an earthlike, not a starlike, body. It has been proposed to alter σκιᾶς into σκιᾷ, and the construction with σύνοδος could be justified by Platonic examples (see R. Kunze in _Rhein. Mus._ vol. 64, p. 635), but the assumed corruption is improbable. E appears[375] to read οἷς not ἧς; the clause introduced by the relative seems to contain a limitation of the phenomenon to ‘those who experience the obscuration’, i.e. those in the track of the shadow over the earth’s surface. In this case, the words may either have come from a marginal gloss on τόδε τὸ πάθος, or should be transposed with those words, as suggested by Dr. Purser. This will be consistent with the account of a solar eclipse given by Cleomedes (2, 3, p. 172), doubtless after Posidonius; it is not αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ πάθος ἀλλὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας ὄψεως, whereas an eclipse of the moon is αὐτῆς τῆς θεοῦ πάθος, irrespective of the place of the terrestrial observer. (10) c. 24, 937 F. _A lion._ Kepler suggests that there was an old confusion between λῖς, a lion, and λᾶς, a stone. (11) c. 24, 938 C. _without mouths._ The MSS. have εὐστόμους, but ἀστόμους is an old correction adopted by W. Pliny, _N. H._ 7, 2, 25, quotes Megasthenes for a mouthless people living near the sources of the Ganges. See also Müller, _Fragm. Hist. Graec._ 2, 427 (Adler). For the notion of living by smell cp. Heraclitus (Fr. 38).