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

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ARISTOTLE'S TfMITINGS 105
;hese also there is no doubt that many spurious titles
aave crept in.
B.
General Questions touching
Writings.
the Aristotelian
3n a general survey of the works which are preserved
)r known to us as Aristotelian, it is evident that they
ipart from the letters and poems—were of two different
dnds. The component parts of our Corpus Ari-
•itotelicum are without exception didactic treatises in
scientific form. 1 And almost all of these which can
36 called genuine are, as will be seen, connected
together by express references
in a way that is only to
be explained by the theory that they were addressed to
me circle of readers as the connected and mutually explanatory
parts of one whole. It is quite different in
:he case of the writings which were afterwards styled
hypomnematic '—notes, that is to say, made by
work see WESTBKMANN, Tlapa- Sckr. 163 sq. ; Fragm. 219) is
10%6-ypatpoi, p. xxv. sqq., and espe- doubtful whether there was an
;ially Kose, Ar. Lior. Ord. 64 Aristotelian work on this subject,
sq., Ar. Pseud. 279 sq., who We cannot prove whether the
refers the main body of the references in Eustath. in Od.
vork, consisting of chaps. 1-114, N 408 and Synes. Enc. Calvit.
130-137, 115-129, 138-181, to c. 22 {Ar. Fr. No. 454, No. 2)
:he middle of the third century, belong to this or to other works.
in enlarged treatment of this, or In addition to these there
i more extensive specimen of the are two titles which are so
iame sort of work, is perhaps the indefinite that they furnish no
Iaprf8o|a, from the second book of safe clue to the contents of the
vhich Plut. (Parall. Gr. et Rom. writings to which they corre-
:. 29, p. 312) quotes something spond: Tlapaflo\a\(T>. 126); "Atob:-
vhich is not found in our @avfi. to (to which irpofiKi)imTa or Airoi/c.
Ilapoiplcu a' (D. 138; cf. An. /ivfifiara may be supplied) i/3' (D.
l27), a collection of proverbs, the 127 ;
cf . p. 96, foot),
ixistence of which seems '
to be The ' wonderful stories ' are
jroved, inter aUa, by Athen. ii. perhaps the only exceptions, but
10 d, although Heitz ( Verl. they are not Aristotelian.
106 ARISTOTLE
Aristotle merely for his own use, and therefore not
thrown by him into
any such literary form and unity
as the works designed for publication. 1 None of the
extant works which are genuine is of this class, 2 but
several of those which are lost seem to have belonged
to it. 3 From these two classes of works, however, there
is to be distinguished a third.
Cicero, Quintilian, and
Dionysius of Halicarnassus praise Aristotle not only for
scientific greatness, but equally for
the grace and richness
of his exposition— 'the golden stream of his
speech.' 4 This must have referred to works designed
1
Simpl. (in Categ. Schol. in
Ar. 24, a, 42) : iiroixvnuariKa Htra
irpbs inr6p.vr\ffiv olicelav Kal ir\e(ova
fi4.fTa.vov avvera^ev 6 tpi\6tTorpos
these writings cannot,
however,
be taken as iravTip (/itovStjs &£ia,
and hence we may not draw from
them any proofs for the Aristotelian
doctrine : d /xivToi *A\c{-
avSpos tc\ (nro/iviffiaTiKa, 0-vp.irerpvpfieva
(pTjfflv elvai Kal /xfy irpbs eVo
ttKmbv avatpepeaBai, and for this
very reason the others are distinguished
from them as