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

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;
;
much as this remains
ARISTOTLE'S WHITINGS 103
of Aristotle's other contributions
to the theory and history of Art or of his dissertations
on the poets. 1 Nor is there much left of the other
books on Poetry (a third ia mentioned
only in the quotations
given on p. 68, n. 1, with regard
to the writing n. ttohitSc), the
more modern only with one;
except in so far as they copy
more ancient writers, as we must
suppose was the case with Ammonius
and Boetbius. From
this alone we might suppose that
the writing in question originally
had a greater extension than it
now has, but this becomes certain
from the references to such
parts of it as are missing in our
recension, as for instance the
discussion on the Catharsis promised
in Polit. viii. 7, 1341, b, 38,
which would naturally have come
in the section on Tragedy, and,
as we learn from sure traces,
actually did occur there (cf.
Bebnays, Grundz. ' d. Abh. d.
Arist. iib. d. Wirkung d. Trag.'
A oh. d. hitt.-phil. Ges. in Brctlau,
160 sqq., 197 sq. ; SUSEMIHL, p.
12; Vahlen, p. 81 sq. of his
edition, and others) ; the examination
of Comedy, promised
Poet. c. 6 init., and quoted
Rhet. i. 11 fin., of which Bernays
(-BA. Mug. viii. 561 sqq.) has
pointed out valuable remnants in
Cramer's Anecd. Paris., vol. i. app.
(now in Susemihl, p. 208 sq., Vahlen,
76 sq.) ; and the discussion on
Synonyms, which Simpl. mentions,
Categ. Schol. 43, a, 13, 27.
In other places also our text
shows many greater or smaller
gaps, as also interpolations (as c.
12 and many smaller ones), and
inversions (the most considerable
that of chap. 15, which ought to
how its present condition may be
explained (Stjsemihl, Hid., p. 3
sq., gives an enumeration of the
come after chap. 18), which sufficiently
prove that we only possess
Aristotle's work in a mutilated
and hopelessly corrupt condition.
We cannot here inquire
different, and in part widely diverging
attempts at explanation).
It may be true, as Susemihl
concludes, that the carelessness
of the writing, the caprice of
the copyists, and the freaks of
accident account for most of the
mischief; but we cannot make
these factors responsible for the
interpolations, except in so far as
they may have rendered possible
the introduction of some marginal
notes into the text.
1
Of the Dialogue n. xovrpSiv
•/ we have already spoken on p.
58. Besides this An. 115 gives
Kvk\ov ir. TronjTuv, likewise in
three books. This title may have
arisen, by duplication and corruption,
from that of the Dialogue,
or it may (according to
Heitz, 178) designate a work
distinct from it : but the xixKov ' '
may also have sprung from the
' iyiciK\wi>
'
(or -lav) which is
found in No. 113.—Allied to it, it
would seem, are n. TpayifSiuv a'
(D. 136, An. 128) and Ku/ukoI
(Beotian, Exp. Voe. Mippocr. s.
v. 'HpoKA. v&aov). Miiller (JUist.
Gr. ii. 82), though not rightly,
takes the AiSao-KctAfai (D. 137
An. 129 ; EOSE, Ar. Ps. 550 sq.,
Ar. Fr. 575-587, p. 1572 sq.
Heitz, 255, Fr. Hz. 302 ,sq.)i
—seemingly a chronological cat a-
104 ARISTOTLE
books named to us, which dealt with subjects outside
the main lines of the Aristotelian system ; ' and among
logue based on the existing inscriptions
of the tragedies performed
in Athens—as a part of
the book on tragedies. — Further,
a series of writings relating
to poets is named, which took
the form of problems '
: Airopinxdrav
TtoiTiTtKav a' (An. App. 145) ;
Atrial -Troir/TiKoi (ibid. 146, where
afalai seems to indicate the form
of treatment which is proper to
the OKop-fj^iara or 7rpoj8A.^uaTa, viz.
that the Sio: t£ is sought, and the
reply consists in giving the Si6n
or the atria) ; 'AiropTifidTaij/ 'OfiT]-
pucuv C (D. 118; AN. 106 f;
HEITZ, 258 sq., Fr. Hz. 129;
Rose, At. Ps. 148 sq., Ar. Fr.
137-175, p. 1501 sq.) or, as the
Vita Mara. p. 2. names it, '0,u.
fyriinarra ; npojSArj/idra!/ 'O/nipikuv
i (An. App. 147 ; Ptol.
91 ; Ammon. V. Ar. 44 ; Amm.
Lat. 54, probably a duplication
of the aKop^fiara) ;
'Airop^iurra
'H