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

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so far as these were genuine '—must, however, have
been mostly compiled during Aristotle's first residence
in Athens, or at least before his return from Macedonia.
A collection of Platonic Divisions ascribed to him
was no doubt a forgery. 2
Par above all these in historic importance stand the
works which set out the peculiar system of the Master in
strict philosophical form.
Speaking broadly, it is these
alone which have survived the first century A.D., and have
Zfyavos, D. 100 : our treatise Be
Melissa, &c., to which, besides the
lost section as to Zeno, another
cited at second hand by Philop.
PUyS. B. 9 as lip. ri)V TlapnevlSov
S6£av seems to have belonged.
We know that this work was used
by Simplicius (cf . Zeller,i.474 sq.).
There was also the Ilepl rrjs %mvaitnrov
Kai "EtvoKparovs [_(pi\otrov with the spurious
deq. v. ZBlAj.,Ph.d. Gr. ii. a. 382. appendix of the so-called ' PostprEedicamenta
; '
1
The title of this work by
and it may have
the common (and probably correct)
account is Karrryopfai ; but poses, by the writer of that tract,
been invented either, as he sup-
we find it also named as : n. tuv or by some later editor who found
Karrjyopiuv, KaTTjyopiai Select, n. the original name, Kcmryopi'ai,
twv 5e/ca Karriyopittiv, n. ruv 5eKa too limited for the treatise as
yevtov, Tl. tuv yevav tov Uptos,
Ktvniyoplcu ijrot ir. rav 5e';ca yevi-
KbtT&TM yevav, n. tG>v Kad6\ov
\6ytav, Xlpb tuv totcikuv{ot roTrwv) ;
enlarged by the spurious addition.
Aristotle himself refers to
his theory of the Categories (De
An. i. 1, 5, 402 a, 23, 410 a, 14,
Anal. Pri. i. 37, cf. the quotations,
infra, p. 189, n. 2, q. r.)
cf. Waitz, Arist. Org. i. 81,
Simpl. in Cat. i, 0, and David,
SoTwl. m Ar. 30, a, 3. The title as known to his readers, and he
Ta irpb t&v t6ttwv was known to assumes this in other places
Andronicus according to Simpl. also, which seems to indicate
ibid. 95 Q, Schol. 81, a, 27, and that he had dealt with it in a
to Boethius, In Presd. iv. p. 191 published work. There is a more
(who obviously got his knowledge definite reference in Eth. N. ii.
from the same source as Simpl., 1 init. to Categ. c. 8 (cf. Treni.e.
Porphyry). Herroinus, eirca DELBNB. Hist. Beitr. i. 174).
160 A.D., preferred it to the ordinary
name. David, however, b 27, may possibly refer not to
That in Eth. Eud. i. 8, 1217,
{Schol. 81, b, 25), D. 59, and the Categ. but to some work of
An. 57 name a book called Th Budemus, and those in Top ix
uph t£>v tSttoiv, besides the Karriyopicu,
which is D. 141, An. 132, 5, no doubt refer to the passage
(Soph. El.) 4. 22. 166, b, 14. 178, -2,
Pt. 25 b ; and do not appear to as to categories in Top. i. 9, init.,