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

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ARISTOTLE'S VigtITINQS 149
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mus ' cited from the Physics of Aristotle the three books
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on Movement.' It can also be proved that the same work
was known to Strabo, 2 and Posidonius the Stoic showed
no less acquaintance with it. 3 The Be Goalo cannot
be shown with certainty to have been known to any
writer older than Andronicus except Theophrastus. 4
It is, however, very unlikely that this work disappeared
after his time when its continuation—the liepl
ysvsaecos koX $6ppas—appears in the Catalogue of
Diogenes, 5 and when the Meteorology, which is closely
connected with both the one and the other, is known
to have been used by many writers of that period. 6
Posidonius, for example, appropriated from it the theory
of the elements, 7 and Strabo disputed its account of the
heaviness and lightness of bodies. 8 The (spurious)
Mechanics, and the Astronomy, are named in the list
in Diogenes. 9 The Natural History was adapted not
only by Theophrastus, 10 but also by the Alexandrine
writer Aristophanes of Byzantium. 11 That it was not
roSro irape\6&>v &s irtpirrby 4ir\ rh. Simplicius remarks that it is
hi t£ retevraiip Pi$\li/i Ked\aia based on Aristotle {Phys. ii. 2).
4
HCTTJ\8e; 279, a: koi 8 ?e ES5. Vide supra, p. 83, n. 1.
Trapatppafaii (rx^Sbv xal avrbs -rb. 5
That is, if No. 39, n.
'ApurrtniKavs Tl6r)ai ko! toCto (rroixeiuv a' j8' y', refers to it;
rh Tju^/iara avvrifias ; 294, b about which see p. 50, u. 1
Aristotle shows that the
6
first Vide supra, p. 83, n. 1.
motor must be immovable—to ' Simpl. Be Ccelo, Scliol. in
which Eudemus adds : t!> irparus Ar. 517, a, 31.
Kaiauv Kaff kK&ar-ov Kim\aai. For 8
Simpl. ibid. 486, a, 5.
further details see ch. xix. infra,
9
The former No. 123, the
and p. 136, n 2. latter 113 : vide supra, p. 86, n. 1.
1
Damasus : vide supra, p. 82.
10
Dioe. v. 49 names as his
2
Cf. SIMPL. Phys. 153, a 'E^iTO/iSp 'ApurToriXovs n". ZaW s-'.
(155, b), 154, b, 168, a, 187, a, " According to Hieeocl.
sqq., 189, b (cf. Phys. iv. 10), Hippiatr. Prof. p. 4, this gram-
214, a. marian had written an 'E«to^ of
3
In the fragment apud it, which Aetbmidor. Onevro-
SlMPL. Phys. 64, b : of which crit. ii. 14 calls {nro/uiifutra eij
150 ARISTOTLE
unknown during the Alexandrine period is also shown
by the Catalogue of Diogenes (No. 102), and by the
existence of a popular compilation from it which was
much in use. 1 The Be Anima was used, after Theophrastus,
2 by the author of the book on the Movement
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of Living Creatures,' who used also the spurious treatise
TLepl Trvev/jLaros. 3 As to the Problems, 4 it is more
than improbable that the working up of that book for
the Peripatetic School began later. than the time of
Andronicus. The Metaphysics was used, as we have
seen, 5 not only by Theophrastus and Eudemus, but after
them by Strabo and other Peripatetics. It was probably
published by Eudemus ;
it do seem to have been first
though some sections of
introduced by Andronicus
into the then extant Aristotelian treatise on the First
Philosophy. Of the Ethics, it is obvious that it could not
have existed only in Theophrastus's MS. so as to be lost
with it, for if so it could not have been worked over
either by Eudemus or at a later date by the author of
Magna Moralia. The Politics, if we are to judge by
the list of Diogenes, was to be found in the Library of
Alexandria, 6 along with the first book of our Economics,
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