The series The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, edited by Richard Sorabji, is an undisputed source for research on the Aristotelian tradition in both ancient and late ancient philosophy. Besides a translation and precise and copious endnotes, each volume of the series has a Greek-English index as appendix to the translation. In these indexes each translator offers a list of transliterated Greek terms with their translation(s), which are considered relevant for the understanding of the text. For each entry of the index, the translator provides the pages and the lines in which that particular meaning of the word can be found. Reference is not to the English translations, but to the pages of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) that are indicated in a parallel numeration in the left margin of the pages of the English translation. For example: “sôma, body, 7,7” is listed in the index of Ammonius, On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-8, tr. D. Blank, 1996, p. 191. Following the parallel numbering provided in the English volume, we can find that p. 7 of Ammonius’ commentary in the CAG is translated on p. 16 of Blank’s volume.

The current volume, “Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle”, by Richard McKirahan is the result of a combination of the Greek-English indexes of the first 100 volumes of the series in a single alphabetical list of terms.