APPENDIX. 



ESSAY ON THE LITERARY AND PECUNIARY RESOURCES 

 WHICH ARISTOTLE EITHER USED, OR IS SAID TO HAVE 

 USED IN THE EXAMINATION AND COMPOSITION OF HIS 

 HISTORY OF ANIMALS. 



Translated from the Latin of Schneider. 



ARISTOTLE had very likely more authorities, whom he has 

 followed, or converted to his own purposes, than those whose 

 names he has given. These are, however, a few, whom he 

 has named, as Alcmaeon of Crotona; Dionysius of Apol- 

 lonia ; Herodorus of Heracleum in Pontus, the father of 

 Bryson the sophist ; Ctesias of Cnidos ; Herodotus of Ha- 

 licarnassus ; Syennesis of Cyprus ; Poly bus ; Democritus 

 of Abdera ; Anaxagoras of Clazomene ; Empedocles of Si- 

 cily ; and if there are any more which do not just now occur 

 to my memory, they are accurately enumerated in the in- 

 dex, with the names of the places to which they belonged. 

 I have said that it is probable, that Aristotle has derived in- 

 formation from more authorities than he has named ; and 

 a reason for this conjecture is found in a passage which he 

 extracts, almost verbatim, from Herodotus, on the Nilotic 

 crocodile (Euterpe, 68). This I have shewn in a note on 

 the passage, book v. ch. 27, 2. And there are many places, 

 both in his natural history and his other works on animals, 

 where our philosopher refers to the ancient fables of men 

 who were transformed into the nature and forms of various 

 animals. The oldest author of such fables is Boeus (or 

 Boeo, in the feminine gender, as some have conjectured). 

 From this book Antoninus Literalis has extracted many 

 chapters in Greek. JSficander of Colophon, and others, 

 followed the example of Boeus. Among Latin writers, 

 the Metamorphoses of Ovid have always commanded at- 

 tention. All who have read the work of Antoninus, and 



