ARISTOTLE AND THE EARLIER PERIPATETICS vol.I by Eduard Zeller, B.F.C.Costelloe 1897

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TEE LIFE OF ARISTOTLE 47
have no reason to believe the attacks of his foes, or
to refuse to accord to him that favourable judgment
which his own Ethics with many subsidiary indications
must demand.
48 ARISTOTLE
OHAPTBE II
aeistotle's writings
A.
Consideration of the particular works seriatim
The literary activity of Aristotle startles us at the outset
both by its extent and its manysidedness. The works
which we have under his name extend over all
branches of philosophy, and they exhibit a vast
wealth of wide observation and historical learning.
Yet
to these extant works the ancient catalogues add a great
number of others, of which only the titles or slight fragments
now remain. Two of these catalogues we have :
the first in two recensions, that by Diogenes (V. 21 sqq.),
and that called the Anonymus Menagii ' ' : the other
in certain Arabic texts. 1 The first list contains, in
Diogenes, 146 titles, most 2 of which the Anonymus
3
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has preserved, leaving out 4 a few 5 and adding seven or
eight new ones. An appendix adds forty-seven titles
many of which, 6 however, are only repetitions or variants
of those already entered—and ten Pseudepigrapha.
1
See both in the Arist. 48) he was Hesychius of Miletus,
Fragm. of Rose and Heitz (Ar. who lived about 500.
4
Opp. v. 1463, Berlin ed., iv. b, As to the possible grounds
1 sq., Paris ed.) of this omission cf. Heitz,
2
According to the earlier Verlm: Sclir. Arist. p. 15.
text 111, but as completed by 5
14byonetext,27bytheother.
Rose from an Ambrosian MS. 132. 6 If our count is right there
3
According to Rose's pro- are 9, i.e. Nos. 147, 151, 154, 155,
bable conjecture {Ar. JAbr, Ord. 167, 171, 172, 174, 182, repeating