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

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ARISTOTLE'S WRITINGS 71
ns, 1 and on subjects belonging to the sphere of
>pics and Eristics. 2 Probably, however, the most
it. KaTtup&ffeas
;
probably, how-
3r, it should be (like the corremding,
or possibly identical,
irk of Theophrastus, named by
06. V. 44) II. KaraipaiTKos Kal
o
ree books named Tabula defininum
quae adhioentur in
pica, i.e. Upbs '6povs tokucwi/)
;
Defniendo Topioo (i.e.
'
On
ignition in Topics,' Pt. 01);
iSlav (D. 32) ! n. ipar^aeas
(D. 44, AN. 44).
andis, however, believes (ut
vra) that these names indicate
ly particular parts of our
pica. He takes Ta irpb rav
rav (elsewhere used for the
teg. ; cf . p. 64, n. 1) to be the
it book, which in fact we know
have been so called by some
NON. Schol. in Ar. 252, a, 46)
; "Opos rav -riirav [as Br. reads
to be books 2-8 ; Toir. irpbs
)s upovs, books 6-7 ; n. iSiay,
ok 5 ; and n. iptar. k. -atroKp.
ak 8, as to which we learn from
.EX. Schol. 292, a, 14, that many
med it so, and others again,
th a reference to its first words,
Ts k. airoKpicreus. These
jgestions seem to commend
imselves : except that it is
iier to suppose as to the seven
books of "Opoi irpb rap rdirwv that
the text of D. is wrong. The
An. gives instead two titles : 51,
"Opuv 0i$\'ov a'; 52, ToiriMJv ('.
Here it is natural to refer the
"Opoi to book 1, the first half of
which (c. 1-11) consists in definitions
and their explanation,
and the seven Topica to books
2- 8. We conjecture, therefore, in
view of the fact that both lists
have the number seven, that in
D. also the "Opoi was originally
distinct from the Topica, and that
his text read : "Opoi irpb tuv toiriKwv
a' : TottikZv a/-£'. D. 65 and
An. 62
name also 'Eirixeipip-oTo;!'
a' j8' (Pt. 55, 39, B, 83, 1, B) ; D.
33 ; An. 33, 'Yiro/iLvfifiaTa 4irtx^ipv
Hutmo., 3 B j D. 70, An. 65, QeVeu
taixEtfn^aTifcal ke'; cf . also TlIEON,
Progymn. p. 165 W. (Rhet. ed.
Hp. II, 69), who ascribes to Aristotle
and Theophrastus itoXhh
f$i[$\ia fleVewv iirtypa(p6tJ.eva, de-
Top. lfi, Schol.
scribed by Alex.
254, b, 10, as containing tV eij to
gvtuceifiwa. Si
eV5o£o>i' imxtipytTiv.
(Upbs Biatv iirixeipetv means 'to
develop the pro and con of a
given proposition,' v. Ind. Ar.
282, b, 57, 283, a, 6: fleVeir
&rixeip?)j[«iTi/ca! are therefore
themes for dialectic development
or dialectical exercises with an
introduction to the way of working
them out.)—The'E7rix«p^MaTa
are no doubt identical with the
Aoyuca. imx^p. the second book
of which is quoted by Philof.
Schol. 227, a, 46, and the "Tiro/ii/V
iiriX*'P- vrfth that which is cited
simply as "Tirop-v^ixaTaby DEXIPP.
Cat. 40, Schol. 48, a, 4, andSlMPL.
Schol. 47, b, 39 following Por-
72 ARISTOTLE
ancient of these tracts were in reality productions of
the Peripatetic school at dates subsequent to Aristotle s
death.
Next to the Topics in order, of subjects come the
Ehetorical Works. 1 Some of these were written
before the Topics in order of time ; others only afterwards
and at a long interval. Of the many books
of Aristotelian or alleged Aristotelian origin which
dealt with the theory of skilled speaking, 2 or treated
phyry. Pt. gives three entries of
1
amusmata ' or ifumsmata ' ' ( =
iiro/iviiiJ.aTa), i.e. No. 69, 2 books
82, 16 books ; and 82, b, 1 book.
The references in Athen. iv. 173,
and xiv. 654 to 'Ap. 7) @e6