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

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ARISTOTLE'S fFRlTINGS 83
Decay ' and the Meteorology? Connected with these
leading works (so far as they are not to be classed
as sections of them under special names, or as spurious),
Altad. Hi. 313 sq.), but the
original text is to be found in the
smaller edition of Bekker and in
that of Prantl. The Aristotelian
origin of B. vi. c, 9, 10 is rightly
maintained by Brandis (ii. b, 889)
against Weisse.
1
The n. oipavoi in 4, and the
n. yevetrews /col rpSopas in two
books. The current division of
these books, however, can hardly
be derived from Aristotle, for
books iii. and iv. of the n. oipavov
are more nearly connected with
the other treatise than are the
earlier books. Aristotle recognises
both by a short reference
to their contents in the beginning
of the Meteorol., and by citing
Be Ceelo ii. 7 in Meteorol. i. 3
. . wepl tov &va> tottov . . iv
rots irepl rod irotelv leal Traa-^iv
Siaipiafiivois ; to the Gen. et Corr.
i. 10 (not Meteor, iv.) Be Sensu
Ar. Meteorol. i. 415, ii. 199 (nor
from Cic. JV. B. ii. 15, and Pldt.
Plae. v. 20) infer that the n.
oipavoi was originally more complete
or existed in a recension
different from ours.
''
AN. App. 150, MeTewpoAoytica
; Pt. 37, n. fucrtiipuv S' % /iE-
TfapoffKoirid ; Pt. 76 do. with two
books only. This work, as above
observed, places itself, in its
opening chapter, in immediate
connection with the works last
discussed ; and its genuineness is
beyond doubt. Aristotle himself
does not, name it (for Be Plant.
ii. 2, 822, b, 32 is a spurious
book), but he frequently recalls
its doctrines; cf. Bonitz, lnd.
Ar. 102, b, 49. According to
Alex. Meteor. 91 and Olympiod.
ap. Ideler, Ar. Meteor, i. 137,
222, 286, Theophrastus in his
fiiTap(rioXoyiKa(T>lOG.v. 44)seems
Ideler (ibid,
c, 3, 440, b, 3, 12 (iv to'is irepi to have imitated it.
juif ems) ; to the 6en. et Corr. ii. i. vii. sq.) shows that it was
2, Be An. ii. 11, 423, b, 29, Be known to Aratus, Philochorus,
Sensai, c, 4, 441, b, 12 (iv rots wepl Agathemerus, Polybius, and Posidonius.
Eratosthenes, however,
aroix^uiv). A work IT. ovpavov is
ascribed by Slit.P.(Be Ccelo, Schol. seems not to have known it ; cf.
in Ar. 468, a, 11, 498, b, 9, 42, Hid. i. 462. Of the four books,
502, a, 43) also to Theophrastus, the last seems from its contents
who is said to have followed the not to have originally belonged
lines of Aristotle's book. With to the same treatise. Alex.
this exception the earliest witnesses
to the existence of the (ap. Olympiod. in Ideler, Ar.
(Meteor. 126, a) and Ammon.
work are Xenarchus and Nicolaus Meteor, i. 133) prefer to connect
of Damascus (v. Brandis, 6r.- it with the IT. yevio-eus ; but it
rom. Phil. ii. b, 952), but there is is not adapted to that work
no doubt of the authenticity either. SiEce it has all the appearance
of being Aristotelian,
either of these books or of the
n. yevio-tas. From StOB. Eel. i. and is cited by Aristotle (Part.
486, 536 we cannot, with Idblee An. ii. 2, 649, a, 33 ; cf. Meteor.
84 ARISTOTLE
are a variety of other treatises on natural philosophy. 1
iv. 10, Gen. An. ii. 6, 743, a, 6
cf . Meteor, iv. 6, 383, b, 9, 384, a,
33), it must be taken to be an
isolated section, which was not
contemplated, in this form, when
the Meteorology was begun (v.
Meteor, i. 1 ad fin.), but which
in the end took the place of the
further matter that remained
to be dealt with at the end of
book iii., which obviously does
not itself bring the treatise to a
close. As Bonitz (Ind. Ar. 98,
b, 53) notices in criticising Heitz,
this book (c. 8, 384, b, 33) cites
Meteor, iii. 677, 378, a, 15 (cf. on
this subject Idelee.iJmZ. ii. 347-
360 ; Spengel, Ueb. ' d. Reihenfolge
d. naturwissensch. Schriften
d. Arist.,' Abhandl. d. Miinohn.
Akad. v. 150 sq. ; Brandis, Gr.-
rom. Phil. ii. b, 1073, 1076;
Rose, Arist. Libr. Ord. 197).
The doubts alluded to by Olympiod.
ibid. i. 131, as to book i.
are unsupported ; the reasons
given by Ideler (i. xii. sq.) for
holding that two recensions of
the Meteor, existed in antiquity
are not convincing. The points
which he supposed to have been
found in another edition of this,
are for the most part referable to
other works, and where that is
not so (Sen. Qu. Nat. vii. 28, 1 ;
apx&v (ibid. 93), n. Kiv^atus (D.
45, 115 ; An. 102, I B; Pt. 17,
8 B ;
the same again as Auscultatio
physica, at No. 34 ; and
perhaps also as n. apxys at D. 41).
In what relation the same work
stands to the titles : n. (pis
(D. 90 as three books, An. 81, as
one) ; bvaucbv a! (D. 91) ; or n.
(pvffiK&v a' (An. 82) is not clear.
An. App. 170, Pt. 85 : n. xptvov
might also be only an extract
including Phys. iv. 10-14, though
it is preferable to think of it as
a special treatise by some of the
Peripatetics. Aristotle himself
refers with the words iv ro?s it.
(rTOLx^vv in the De An. ii. 11,
423, b, 28, and the De Sensu, 4,
441, a, 12, to the Gen. et Corr.
ii. 2 sqq. Whether in D. 39,
An. 35, the title n. otoixeW y'
only refers to this work (possibly
in connection with De Cosh iii.
and iv., cf. p. 50, u. 1 ; or with
Meteor, iv., cf. X*r. Hz. 156), or
whether it means a special collection
of several Aristotelian tracts
relating to the elements, or
whether there was a separate
treatise (which could not be considered
genuine) must remain an
open question.— So, again, as to
the book n. tov irdirxfiv % ireTrov-
Bjvcu (D. 25) : Aristotle in De An.
of. Meteor, i. 7, 344, b, 18) our ii. 5, 417, a, 1, and in Gen. Anim.
informant may be in error. But it iv. 3, 768, b, 23 refers by the
is possible that these points may formula, iv to?s it. tov iroteTv Kai
have come from an edition that irdtrxeiv, to Gen. et Corr. i. 7 sq..
had been expanded by a later a reference doubted by Trendelenburg
(De An. ibid.) and by
hand or largely added to ; cf
Bkandis, p. 1075.
Heitz (V. S. 80), but which it
1
The Physios have the following
titles : n. apx&v % (pitrem son of the passages, to reject
seems impossible, on compari-
a' (An. 21), iv rols ir. toiv hpx&v (cf. with Gen. An. p. 324, u, 30
Tjjs 8Aijs