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

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of Andronicus was already known.
Its compiler must have been J
a scholar of the Alexandrine
period, most probably Hermippus and he
2
must
either not have had the means or not have taken the
trouble to give us more than a list of the manuscripts
which were to be found 3 in a library accessible to him,
presumably that of Alexandria. Otherwise it would
be impossible for him to have omitted important works
which can, as we shall see, be clearly proved to have
been in use during the two centuries preceding the date
of Andronicus. 4 The first catalogue, therefore, only
shows us what writings appeared under Aristotle's name
in the Library of Alexandria.
Of far later dabe is the other catalogue of Aristotelian
writings, which two Arabic writers of the thirteenth
century 5 copied from a certain ' Ptolemy' — probably a
Peripatetic of the second century A.D., mentioned also
by Greek writers. 6 His list seems to have reached the
cf . Zelleb, Ph. d. 0r. Pt. iii. a. Heitz, ibid. 49, Ar. Fr. 11).
556, 2nd ed., and Heitz, Verlor. Through what channel it came
Schr. 38. to the knowledge of Diogenes,
1
So Heitz, i& sq., followed we do not know,
by Geote, i. 48, Susemihl, Ar. 3
Brandis (Gr.-rom. Phil. ii.
ii. d. Diehtk. 19, Ar. Pol. xliii., b, 1, 81) has shown that this
Nietzsche, Shew,. Mus. xxiv. is probably true of both the
181 sg. $ catalogues of Aristotle and Theos
Wearenotexpresslytoldthat phrastus given by Diogenes,
this scholar and Peripatetic, who * Diogenes himself elsewhere
wrote about 200 B.C., catalogued cites works of Aristotle which are
the works of Aristotle ; but it is not in his list (Brandis, ibid.
hardly to be doubted, seeing that Heitz, 17), but this only proves
he wrote a biography of Aristotle that these references were taken
in at least two books which Dio- from other sources than those
genes used (cf. DlOG. v. 1, 2, and from which he got the Cata-
Athen. xiii. 589, xv. 696), and logue.
5
that his 'Amypcup}) tuv @eo(f>pd