{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4017.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4017.tlg001.local001","title":"In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Syrianus","authorityName":"SYRIANUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4017-syrianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4017-syrianus/","editors":["Wilhelm Kroll"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Syriani in metaphysica commentaria","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1902","volume":"6.1","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/commentariaina06pt12akaduoft/page/n21/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Syrianus. In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria. ed. Wilhelm Kroll. Syriani in metaphysica commentaria, Berlin, Reimer, 1902. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4017.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἐν τῷ μείζονι Α τίς ἡ παροῦσα σκέψις εἰπών, ὅτι ἡ τοῦ ὄντος ᾗ 837a ὅν, καὶ τίς ἡ ἐπιστήμη, ὅτι ἡ πρώτη φιλοσοφία, καὶ πόσα τὰ αἴτια, καὶ πῶς οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν αἰτίων τοῦ ὅπως ποτὲ ὄντος διελέχθησαν, ἔτι δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐλάττονι τῶν A δείξας, ὅτι οὔτε κατ’ εὐθυωρίαν οὔτε κατ’ εἶδος ἄπειρα ·τὰ αἴτια, νῦν ἀρχόμενος τοῦ Β πρῶτον ἀπορῆσαι χρῆναί φησιν, ἵνα τε εὐπορώτερον ἀναστραφῶμεν ἐν τοῖς προκειμένοις σκέμμασιν οὔτε γὰρ εὐπορῆσαι δυνατὸν μὴ λύσαντας τὰς ἀπορίας οὔτε λῦσαι μὴ κατανενοηκότας τὸ ἄπορον τοῦ πράγματος), καὶ ἔτι ὅπως ἄν ἴδωμεν τὸ τέλος τῆς προκειμένης θεωρίας· ἡ γὰρ λύσις τῶν ἀπόρων εὐοδίαν παρέχουσα ἐπ’ αὐτὸ καταντᾶν ἡμᾶς τὸ ἀληθέστατον τῆς θεωρίας τέλος παρασκευάσει· κἀκ τούτων δὲ καθῆκον τῷ φιλοσόφῳ τὸ ἀπορεῖν δείκνυσιν, ἵνα τῶν ἀντικειμένων λόγων ὥσπερ ἀπρόληπτος καὶ ἀδέκαστος γενόμενος διαιτητὴς ἕληται τὸ τῇ ἀληθεῖ θεωρίᾳ συμφωνότερον. ταῦτα προοιμιασάμενος ἔκθεσιν πρῶιον…","divisions":[{"label":"ΣΤΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΥ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001/#tlg4017-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"ΣΥΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΕΝΟΥ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001/#tlg4017-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"ΣΥΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΥ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001/#tlg4017-tlg001-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4017.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4017/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}