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

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A;
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92 ARISTOTLE
p. 72, n. 2 fin: supra, has nothing
to do with it. (3) II. Hvvov Kal
i-ypTiy6ptreas cited De Longit. V.,
Part. An., Gen. An., Motu An.,
and announced as in contemplation
(
Ind. Ar. 103, a, 16 sq) by De
An. iii. 9, 432, b, 11, De Sensu,
o. 1, 436, a, 12 sq. It is frequently
connected with (2) (but
clearly for external reasons only)
as if they were one treatise, n.
ARISTOTLE'S WRITINGS 91
/ivii/iris Kal Birxou (Gbll. vi. 6,
Alex. Top. 279, Schol 296, b, 1,
copied Suid. lurf/py, Alex. De
Sensu, 125, b, Michael, in Arist
De Mem. 127, a, Ptol. 4). It is,
however, clear from Arist. Divin.
in Somn. c. 2, fin., that it was in
fact bracketed with (4) n. 'Ekuitviuiv
and (5) n. rrjs kuB' "Tti/ov.
fiavTtKrjs. (4) is also in the De
Somnn, 2, 456, a, 27, announced
as in preparation. (6) n. naxpo-
/HtdTTjTOS Kal Ppaxvf3i6TT]Tos, cited,
not by name, Part. An iii. 10,
673, a, 30, and by name Athen.
viii. 353, a, Pt. 46, and perhaps
also An. App. 141. (7) n. £ai?jr
Kal davdrov : to which (8) n.
avairvoijs, is in Aristotle's view so
closely related that they form
one whole (De Vita et M. c. I
init. 467, b, 11, De Respir. c. 21,
486, b, 21). There was a third
tract , n. vi&Trrros Kal yiipais, spoken
of by Aristotle (467, b, 6, 10), to
which our editors ascribe the
first two chapters of the n. fays
Kal Bavdrov, but clearly without
reason, for it seems more probable
either that Aristotle never wrote
the tract or that it was lost at a
very early date (cf. Brandis,
1191, Bonitz, Ind. Ar. 103, a,
26 sq, Heitz, p. 68).—Inasmuch
as the De Vita et Morte, c. 3, 468,
b, 31 (cf. De Respir. c. 7, 473, a,
27) mentions the Essay on the
Parts of Animals as already existing
(cf. Rose, Ar. IAlr. Ord.,
who wrongly refers to Hist. An.
iii.. 3, 513, a, 21), and as the Essay
on Life and Death is spoken of
in the De Longit. V. c. 6, 467,
b, 6 as the conclusion of the
inquiries concerning animals,
Brandis (1192 sq.) suggests that
only the first half of the so-called
'
Parva Naturalia' (Nos. 1-5) was
composed immediately after the
De Anirna; and that the rest of
these (which in Ptolemy's catalogue
stand at No. 46 sq. divided
from the books on Sense, Sleep,
and Memory by the books on
Zoology) were not written until
after the works on the Parts, the
Movement, and the Generation
of Animals, though projected
earlier. And it is true that in
the De Generat. Anim. iv. 10,
777, b, 8, we hear that inquiries
into the reason of the varying
duration of life are projected,
and these are not further dealt
with in that work. But on the
other hand the Part. An. iii. 6,
669. a, 4 refers to De Respir. c.
10, 16, and the same iv. 13, 696,
b, 1, and 697, a, 22, to De Respir.
o. 10, 13; and Gen. An. v. 2, 781,
a, 20, as already observed, to De
Vita et Morte, 3, 469,, a, 10, sq.
(cf. Ind. Ar. 103, a, 23, 34, sq.,
where the other references are
more problematical). If Brandis
is right, these references must
have been added, as does sometimes
happen, to works previously
completed. As to the genuineness
of the writings already named, it
is guaranteed not only by internal
evidence, but by the references
referred to.—Another
projected tract, n. v6aov Kal Kleins
(De Sensu c. 1, 436, a, 17,
Long. Vit. c. 1, 464, b, 32, Respir.
c. 21, 480, b, 22, Part. An. ii. 7,
gations On the Parts of Animals, 1 with the connected
essays on the Generation 2 and the Movement of
653, a, 8), was probably never Peripatetic ; cf. further op. Rose,
written (though Heitz, p. 58 and Ar. Libr. Ord. 167, sq., and
Fr.Ar. 169, thinks otherwise). It Brandis, p. 1203, who both with
is unknown to Alexander, De Bonitz reject the book.
1
Sensu, 94, and therefore it is likely n. $wv fiopluv four books
that the De Sanitate et Morbo (in An. App. 157, three books) :
known by the Arabic writers cited in the De Gen. An., Ingr.
(Hadschi Khalfa apud Wenrich, An., Motu An. (cf. Ind. Ar. 103,
1 60) was a forgery. Two books IT. a, 55 sq), and the De Vita et M.
oi^ea? (AN. App. 173) and one n. and De Respir. (de a. r. p. 91,
(pwpijs (ibid. 164) could hardly supra)—but the De Somno, 3, 457,
be genuine (cf. p. 86, n. 1).— b, 28 might be referred to De
book n. Tpa7).v seems to be referred
to as existing in the Be Somno, c. 2, 455, b, 34 may be
Sensu, 2, 438, b, 28, though De
Somno, c. 3, 456, b, 5 (the reference
in Meteor, iv. 3, 381, b, iii. 3, 665, a, 10 sq., than by De
better paralleled by Part. An.
13 being too uncertain), and it is Sensu, 2, 438, b, 25 sq. It is
spoken of as a project in De An. spoken of as projected in Meteor.
ii. 4 fin., Gen. An. v. 4, 784, b, 2,
Part. An. ii. 3, 650, b, 10, and c.
7, 653, b, 14, and c. 14, 674 a, 20,
and iv. 4, 678, a, 19. The reference
in De Motu An. 10, 703,
a, 10 (cf . Michael Ephes. ad loe.
p. 156, a) is not to a n. Tpot$>r)s,
but to the n. irvei/iaros : for the
words rls fiev oiv r) iraiTrtpla tov
(rvfitpirov irveifiaros ^iprfrai 4v &\-
Aoir clearly relate to the words
tIstjtov ^fupfcov irj/eifiaTos Sia/xovf)
(n. irvev. init.). (So Bonitz, Ink.
Ar. 100, a, 52 ; but ROSE, Ar. Libr.
Ord. 167 makes them refer to the
n. &!. Kurf\tr. itself, and Heitz,
JV.Xr.l68tothen.Tpo*?i.) The
work is named in Pt. No. 20,
where it is wrongly given three
books. It dealt with food and other
matters in an aphoristic style;
and that it is later than Aristotle
is clear from the fact that it
recognised the distinction of
veins and arteries, which was
unknown to him (cf. Ind. Ar.
109, b, 22, sq.). In any case it is
i. 1, 339, a, 7, and Mist. An. ii.
17, 507, a, 25. The first book is
a, kind of introduction to the
zoological works, including the
treatises on the Soul, and the
activities and conditions of life,
and it cannot well have been
originally meant for this place
(cf. Spengel, On the ' order of
Aristotle's books on Natural Philosophy,'
Abh. d. Munch. Altad.
iv. 159, and the, others there
cited).
2 n. &W 7fvEff6ci?j, five books
(in An. App. 158, three books,
Pt. No. 44, five books, ibid.
No. 77, the same work in two
books ;
the errors are of no significance).
It is often referred to
by Aristotle, but only in the
future (cf. Ind. Ar. 103, b, 8 sq.).
Dioo. omits it ; but its genuineness
is beyond doubt. Book v.,
however, seems not to belong to
it, but to be an appendix to the
works on the Parts and Generation
of Animals, just as the