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

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ARISTOTLE'S \RITINGS 87
Next to the Physics and the related treatises come
the numerous and important works dealing with life.
Some of these are descriptive, others are inquiries. To the
former class belong the History of Animals ' and the
bable that among Aristotle's
genuine Problems there were
some in Optics The De Specnlo,
attributed by Arabic and Christian
Middle-Age writers to Aristotle,
appears to be only Euclid's
KaTo:rTpiKei (Rose, Ar. Ps. 376).
D. 113 ; An. 101, report an
'AcTTpovopLKbv ; and Aristotle himself
refers to such a work in
Meteor, i. 3, 339, b, 7 (tfSij yap
&VTO.I Sta tuv harpo\oyiRS)v OeapijfxaTav
r»uv), ibid. c. 8, 345, b, 1
(naddirep SgIkvutcu iv rots irepl
aavpohoylav dewpiiiiatnv), and De
Ccelo, ii. 10, 291, a, 29 (irep! li
>
rris rd^ews abruv etc. e/c twv
irepl cunpaXoylav Sevpelrrdai Aeyerai
yip Uavms) ; SlMPL. on the
De Ccelo, Schol. 497, a, 8, appears
to have the same in his
mind. The existence of the
book is accepted, of modern
scholars, by Bonitz (Ind. Ar.
104, a, 17 sq.) and Prantl (ad
n. obp. p. 303) ; while Heitz (S. V.
p. 117) thinks it probable, though
in Fr. Hz. 160 he refuses to decide.
Blass (Rhein. Mtts. xxx
504) applies the references to
writings by other hands. Ideler
(Ar. Metaph. i. 415) assumes a
varying recension of the De Ccelo,
which has no probability. It
does not seem probable that
this Astronomical—or as Aristotle
would have called it (v.
Heitz, ibid.) Astrological—work
took the form of Problems, since
Aristotle repeatedly speaks of
SeapfoaTa. Not to it, but to
late interpolated tracts, are the
titles to be referred which are
mentioned by Hadschi Khalfa
(p. 159-161) : De siderum arcanis,
De sideribus eorumque areanis,
De stellis labentibus, and Mille
verba de astrologia jiidiciaria.
As to the accuracy of the other
mathematical and related writings,
we can decide nothing. The
attempt of Rose (Ar. Libr. Ord.
192) to prove that none of them
can be Aristotle's does not
succeed.
1
n. Tti £$a latopla (II. (ywv
la-ropias i', An. App. 155 ; the
same is meant by D. 102 and
An. 91, n. ftW, nine books, and
by Pt. 42). The Arabic writers
count ten, fifteen, or nineteen
books, and had no doubt expanded
the extant text by
various added tracts ; cf. Wenrich,
De Auet. Grcec. Vers. 148.
Aristotle quotes it by various
names : itTTopiat [_-ia] ir. ra £$a
(Part. Anim. iii. 14, 674, b, 16 ;
iv. 5, 680, a, 1 ; iv. 8 ad Jin. ; iv.
10, 689, a, 18 ; iv. 13, 696, b, 14 ;
Gen. An. i. 4, 717, a, 33 ; i. 20,
728, b, 13; Respir. c. 16, init.) ;
IffTopiai 7r. twc £$W (Part. Anim.
ii. 1, init. c. 17, 660, b, 2 ; Gen.
Anim. i. 3, 716, b, 31 ; Respir. c.
12, 477, a, 6), friK^lffTopiaXPart.
Anim. iii. 5, Jin.), iVropfd ij>v