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

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50 ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE'S WRlflNOS 49
Both the sources agree in putting the total number of
books at nearly 400. * The author of the first catalogue
cannot be (as Rose imagines 2 ) identified with Andronicus
of Rhodes, the well-known editor and arranger of
Aristotle's works, 3 though it is not to be doubted that
that Peripatetic did compile a catalogue of Aristotle's
writings. 4
For even if we could set aside the fact that
Andronicus is said to have given the total number at
1,000 books, 5 and the circumstance that the extant
index includes 6 the Tlspl spfirjvsias, which he rejected, 7
it remains clear that we should look to find in Andronicus's
edition those writings above all that are included
in our extant Corpus Aristotelioum, which is
derived, speaking broadly, from his own. This is far
from being true of the extant catalogues, for many
important parts of the extant Corpus are either altogether
absent or at least are not to be traced under
Nos. 106, 7, 111, 91, 98, 16, 18, which did not at all correspond
3.9 and 11 of the main list. with his own work. A similar
1
Diog. 34, and the Anon, catalogue of the writings of
Menag. at the beginning of his Theophrastus is ascribed to him
list. The titles in Diog. (reckoning by the Scholia at the end of his
the Letters as one book for each Metaphysics and at the beginning
correspondent named and the of the seventh book of the Hist, of
Uo\iTelai as a single book) give Plants.
375 books ; those in the Anon, as
5
David, Schol. in Ar. 24, a,
completed by Rose, 391. 19.
2 Arist. Pstrudepig. 8 sq.
6
This is the more remarkable
3
Cf . Zelleb, Ph. d. Gr. Pt. because we gather from Diog. 34
iii. a, 549, 3 (2nd edition). that the catalogue was to include
4
This is clear from the above- only works recognised as gementioned
passage of Plut. miine. Bernays (Dial.d. Ar. 134)
{Sulla, 26) from the V. Marc. 8 therefore supposes that the
(cf. p. 37, n. 4, supra) and David, book was inserted in the cata-
Schol. in Ar. 24, a, 19. It is not logue of Andronicus by a later
credible that Andronicus merely hand.
adopted the catalogue of Her-
7
Alex, in Anal. Pri. 52.
mippus (v. Heitz, Ar. Fr. 12)
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their later name3 and in their later form. 1 The converse
theory 2 that the list in Diogenes was meant to
contain only those writings which were left out of
Andronicus's collection of the didactic works, is negatived
by the fact that the list
contains many important
sections of the Corpus, and that it distinctly claims to
be a complete review of the philosopher's works, 3 For
similar reasons it is equally impossible that it can owe
its origin to Nicolaus of Damascus, 4 or any other to
1
Of the books contained in
our Corpus Aristotelicvm Diogenes'
list mentions only the
following: Nos. HI, The Categories
; H2, II. ipfi-rivelas ; 49,
Tlporeptay avakvTiKuv ; 50, 'AyaA.
bafipaiv ; 102, n. &W, 9 books
(meaning no doubt the History of
Animals, I he spurious tenth book
of which is afterwards, No. 107,
called "tirip rov /j.^ ytvv^v) ; 123,
MTJXavLK&v a ' j 75, TloKvriKTjs cucpod-
(Tfws 8 books ; 23, OlKovofwcbs a'
78, Texvris /57)to/>ik5js a'
; 119,
UoniTiKuy a' : and probably also
the Topics, under two different
names, cf. infra. Also Nos. 90,
n. tpio-ems a''ff •/, and 45 (115),
n. Kiv4itreus a' (which are
probably parts of the Physics) ;
and No. 39, n. oroixeiW a' &' y'
(meaning probably the two
books n. yevetreus with our book
iii. Be Ccelo, or book iv.
Meteor.') ; 70, ©etreis «rixs'PVa -
tikoX K€ (no doubt a recension of
the Problems) ; 36, n. tUv iroo-a-
X&s Aeyo/j.4vui> (doubtless the treatise,
often cited by Ar. under that
name, which is now book v. of the
Metaphysics) ; and 38, "HBikHv
(only 5 books). Even assuming
that all the suggested correspondences
are correct, the list still
omits important parts of our
Corpus. The Anon. Menag. adds
the Topics under that name (his
No. 52) and the Metaphysics, to
which he gives 20 books (if the
text is right, de quo infra). The
First Analytic is his 134, with
2 books, and the Ethics is 39,
"UBiKav k' (lege a'-*'). His appendix
adds : 148, *ucn/ri) uitpSaais,
of (lege i\ ; 149, n. yevetreus zeal
(pBopas ; 150, n. /teretSptoj/, 5' ; 155,
n. (tf,av io-Topias i'; 156, II. &>ccy
Kivfiirems (as 3 books); 157, n.
&W iiopiav (only 3 books) ; 158,
n. £jW yeviaws (also 3 books) ;
174, II. t)BikSiv tiiKoimxeiaiv.
2
Of Bernays, Dial. Ar. 133,
and Rose, ut supra: cf on the
opposite side, Heitz, Verlnr.
Sclir. p. 19.
*
' Svpfypaif/e tie -ird/iirKeiirTa
£
f}iP\ia. o7rep atc6\ovBov riyrjffd/iriv
viroyp&tpcu Slit tV irep! irdvras
\6yovs ravSpbs aper-liv,' are the
introductory words in Diog. v. 21,
but that does not mean that he'
would exclude the main philosophical
treatises. The same is
clear from § 34, where Aristotle's
power of work is said to be proved
in twv irpoyeypaij.ij.4vuy