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

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ARISTOTLE'S TfiRITINGS 75
Of the writings devoted to the development of his
philosophic system, the first place is given to collections
of Definitions ' and Divisions 2 —regarded as aids to
from the arbitrariness of the
separation of the part attributed
to Anaximenes from the rest, the
influence of the school of Aristotle
betrays itself throughout,
not only in the persistence of a
method of didactic definitions
and divisions, but also in the
tenor of particular passages. Cf.,
e.g., c. 2 init. (with Rhet. 1. 3)
c. 3, 1424, a, 12-19 (Polit. vi. 4,
1318, b, 27-38); c. 5, 1427, a, 30
(Mh. N. v. 10, 1135, b, 11 sqq.,
Rhet. i. 13, 1374, b, 6)
; c. 8, 1428,
a, 19 sqq. {Rhet. ii. 25, 1402, b,
12 sqq.) ; c. 8, 1428, a, 25 (Anal,
pr. ii. 27 init.) ; c. 9 init. (Rhet.
i. 2, 1357, b, 28) ; c. 12 init. (Rhet.
ii. 21, 1394, a, 22) ; and the distinction
of ivBifiri/ui and yvija\ in
c. 11 sq., though differently put,
is of Aristotelian origin (cf. Rhet.
ii. 21, 1394, a, 26) ; c. 17 (Rhet. i.
15, 1376, b, 31 sq.); c. 28 init.
29 init. (Rhet. iii. 9, 1410, a, 23).
1
D. 64, An. 61, 'Opioyiol, 13
books : Pt. 59 : "Opoi, 16 books,
was certainly a later work of the
School, analogous to the Platonic
Definitiones. As to the other
title, An. 51,°Opa>v faPKtov a', cf.
p. 71, n. 2, supra.
2
Besides the ' Platonic Divisions
mentioned ' p. 63, n. 2, the
lists name the following of this
class : D. 42, Ataipiffets i(' [AN.
41, n. Siaipeireuv] ; D. 43, An. 42,
AiaiptriKwv a' [Eose leg. -nbv, as
in the duplicate title D. 62] Pt.
;
52 gives the AiaipeVeis (which
might extend to any length according
to the subjects chosen),
26 books. Whether the work was
different from or identical (as
seems more probable) with the
Platonic Amip«re«, it cannot be
genuine. The quotation in Alex.
Top. 126, Schol. 274, a, 42, from
Aristotle, iv t$ twv ayaBav 5ic«-
p€V« (Ar. Fr.'lW, p. 1496 ; Fr.
Hz. 119), is satisfied by M. Mor. i.
2, 1183, b, 20 sq., cf. Eth. N. i. 12,
1101, b, 11, but may have found
its way from that source into the
AiaipeVejs also.— Aristotle himself
names an 'Eic\oyfy rwv ivavrluv, in
Metapli. iv. 2, 1004, a, 1, where,
after the remark that all oppositions
finally go back to that
of the %v or tv and its opposite,
he adds : reBeup'fitrBai 5' $\\uv
ravra iv t?? iK\oyrj Ttev ivavriwv :
in the parallel passage, xi. 3,
1061. a, 15, it is only ia-rwoav yh.p
dUrai TeOeupTjfievai : cf. 1004, b,
33, iravra 8e Hal raWa avaydfieva
(paiverm els t& %v Kal rb tr\rj9os'
el\Ji