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

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ARISTOTLE'8
WRITINGS
aother class of writings, less directly akin, are the
1, tovto Se iras Swaraj* $ ctSiJ-
•ov, tlpijKaixtiv, etc., and 325,
25, iras Se £v54xerat tovto (Tvfj.-
tvtiv, tt&Kiv Keywpev, etc.). It
jgests itself, therefore, either
apply the title in Diog.
this section only or to the
tole of book i. If, however, a
parate treatise is meant, then
seems more likely that it was
alogous to the Gen. et Corr.
m that (as Trend. Gesch.
Kategor., 130, supposes) it
lated generally of the eateries
of Action and Passion.
ith Physics also was connected
3 tract De qucestionibus JiyUcis,
is against Pletho (Fr. Hz. 157),
longs perhaps to the Siatpia-eis
jken of p. 75, n. 2.— Many
the books we hear of as re-
;ed to the subject of the Meteor.
im to have been spurious,
work n. kvijiav (Achill.
.T. in Ar. c. 33, 158 A; Fr.
;. 350 ; ROSE, Ar. Ps. 622) was
jribed to Aristotle, probably
a confusion between him and
eophrastus (de q. v. Diog. v.
; Alex. Meteor. 101, b, 106, a,
;.) ; and so with the 2i)M e 'a
i/itbvav (D. 1 12, or ap. An. 99,
27jjuaLov6(3iP\os t. fiETtlWtov. See himself, was also ascribed with
Simpl. Phys. 1, a; Be Cceln, much likelihood to Theophrastus
Schol. in Ar. 468, b, 25 ; Damaso. by Simpl. Be Ccelo, Schol. in
Be Ccelo, ibid. 454, a, 22; Philop. Ar. 510, b,10, and Philop. Oen.et
Phys. a, 1, m. (who, however, on Corr. 8 b, whereas Philop. ad
the Meteorologia,i. 135 id., speaks Gen. et Corr. 37, a, and ad Phys.
as if he did not know such a m. 8, treats it simply as by Aristotle.
tract) ; Olympiod. in Meteor, i.
Its genuineness is doubted
133 id. Some, with more reason, also by Rose (Ar.Libr. Ord.lW).
attribute the book to Theophrastus
The reference in Eutoc. ad Ar-
(Pollux, Onomast. vii. 99, chim. de Cire. Bimens. praam.
x. 149; cf. Diog. v.44; Theophr. does not mean that Aristotle
Be Lapid. init. ; Alex. Meteor. wrote a book on squaring the
126, a, ii. 161 Id.; and see circle ; the allusion is merely to
Rose, Arist. Ps. 254 sq., 261 Soph. El. 11, 174, b, 14 or Phys. i.
sq. ; Ar. Fr. 242 sq. S. 1523; 2, 185, a, 16. Without further
Fr. Hz. 161). Against the idea explanation Simpl. (Categ. 1 O
that Meteor, iii. 7, 378, b, 5 ;
iv. names Aristotle's y^a/ifrprnd t€ kuI
8, 384, b, 34, refers to the n. i^t. lj.rixa.vtKa $ifr\la ; but the extant
(on which see Heitz, p. 68), see Mrixavwa (in D. 123; AN. 114,
Bonitz, Lnd. Ar. 98, b, 53. We called firixavutbv [-«»], but more
know nothing of the Be metalli "correctly ap. Pt. 18, Mrix. irpofl\ll)x.a.Ta)
are certainly not from
fodinis (Hadschi Khalfa, ap.
Wenrich, Be Auct. Gr. Ve