The second [appendix] relates to the count of the sages that are mentioned in the Mishnah because of a story that happened at one of their times or for an ethic with which they rebuked or a verse about which he said a homily.

The Mishnah has already brought the name of many of the sages, and not because there is reliance upon them them for something of the laws about the prohibited and the permitted. But rather they are mentioned because of something that happened in one of their times or he taught ethics – for example, those that are mentioned in Avot. And from him we learned that ethic or that homily that he expounded, [that] does not teach the prohibited and the permitted, and they wrote the matter in his name. And the number of people whose mention comes upon one of these matters that we mentioned – and that which is similar to them – are thirty-seven men. And these are they:

RabbI Yehoshua ben Levi, Rabbi Elazar HaKappar, Rabbi Elazar ben Arakh, Rabbi Eliezer HaModaai, Yehudah ben Teima, Rabbi Shimon ben Netanel, Rabbi Shimon ben Akashia, Rabbi Shimon ben Chalafta, Chaninah ben Dosa, Chananiah ben Chizkiah ben Garon, Rabbi Chananiah ben Teradyon, Rabbi Nechunia ben HaKaneh, Rabbi Yishmael ben Pavi, Yochanan ben HaChorani, Rabbi Yose bar Yehudah the man of Kefar HaBavli, Rabbi Yose ben Durmaskit, Rabban Gamliel the son of Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi, Rabbi Shimon the man of HaMitspeh, Choni the Circle-maker, Rabbi Horkanos, Rabbi Yannai, Rabbi Nechorai, Antigonos the man of Sokho, Rabbi Chalafta the man of Kfar Chananiah, Rabbi Levitas the man of Yavneh, Rabbi Yonatan, Shmuel the Little, Ben Bag-Bag, Ben Heh-Heh, Rabbi Elehoeinai ben HaKof, Chanme'el the Egyptian, Rabbi Shimon ben Menasia, Abba Shaul ben Botnit, Zechariah ben Kevutal, Bava ben Buta, Rabbi Yishmael the son of Rabbi Yochanan ben Beroka, Rabbi Yishmael beRebbe Yose.

And likewise [here], I did not intend to mention these in [chronological] order. If so, the total number of sages mentioned in the Mishnah is one hundred and twenty-eight.

And there are two [other] men the mention of which was brought in the Mishnah, and they are Elisha the other (Acher) – and we did not number him in the category of these pure ones because of the matter that was known about him – and Menachem, the colleague of Shammai – and likewise we did not number him, as there is not found anything about him in the Mishnah in any way, such that he should be escorted by one of all of the things that we recounted.