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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...325-6) 1 Cf. Themistius, Orat. 23, p. 235 (quoted as frag. 57 of Timaeus by C. Miiller): KripiffoSipovs 5e Kal EvfiovMSas Kal Tt/xcuous, AiKaidpxovs kol ffrparbv oXov Twv eiridefxevwv 'Apiffroreei rq rayeipitti Tt6t h.v Karae aifxl fvirerws, Siv Kat dyoi QtKvovvrai els T6vtie rbv xp6vov, Starripovvres ttip airexdelav Ka ipoveiKiav. Many of these were posthumous enemies. We know that the school of Isocrates anc other sophists afforded him plenty of contemporary opponents besides. ing state of Greece, and he was not bound by the spirit of patriotism, like Demosthenes, to fight to the last for a dying cause, being only a metic, or resident alien at Athens. 563. The catalogue of Aristotle's works, which were said to amount to more than 400, and which embraced every kind of science and every sort of literary criticism, need not occupy us here. The list given by Diogenes in his Life was probably prepared by Andronicus, or perhaps Hermippus, from the works found under his name in the Alexandrian library, and does not contain some of those now extant. There is also a list drawn up by Arabic writers of the thirteenth century. The critical questions about these long and complicated lists are discussed by many German writers, who are referred to in Zeller's account. A careful catalogue is to be found in the opening of the fifth volume of the Berlin Aristotle, prepared by Val. Rose, and to this splendid volume I also refer in considering the fragments of lost works. These fragments have, in the case of Aristotle, so peculiar an interest for us, that I propose here to consider them before I enter upon an account of the extant works which belong to the plan of the present book. For it is to the fragments of Aristotle that we must look for all our knowledge of...

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