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teorologica.' l Further researches on the principle here indicated may 

 very probably add to the lists, but a very small part of either would 

 be sufficient to demonstrate when we consider that almost every one 

 of these treatises would involve the possession of some others in order 

 to be itself intelligible that it was not the want of acroamatic works 

 that produced the decay of the Peripatetic school. 



Aip to the To make an objection to the inference which these facts allow us to 

 draw against the correctness of Strabo's story, on the ground that 

 Theophrastus may possibly have chosen to keep the works of Aristotle, 

 as well as his own, in his own possession, and communicate the use 

 of them only to the more favoured of his scholars, would be a most 

 arbitrary proceeding ; as there is not the slightest historical ground 

 for such an hypothesis. But Brandis has precluded even this step. 

 He has shown that Chrysippus the Stoic (who, in his dialectical 

 work, quoted by Plutarch, 2 speaks in the highest terms of the cultiva- 

 tion of that branch of science by the Academics down to Polemo, and 

 the Peripatetics down to Strato inclusive), in several of his particular 

 doctrines had an especial reference to the former treatment of the same 

 by Aristotle, Eudemus, and Theophrastus. 3 His discussion of the 

 idea of Time is entirely based upon that of Aristotle, and exhibits an 

 unworthy endeavour to conceal the similarity. 4 Nay, the ancient 

 commentators of highest reputation maintained that the whole of the 

 Stoics' logical science, on which they prided themselves much, was 

 nothing more than a following out of Aristotle's principles, and, in 

 particular, that their doctrine of Contraries (ra evairia) was entirely 

 derived from Aristotle's book 'On Opposites' (napl ajrim/utVwv). 5 

 Also to the But it was not only to philosophers either of his own or of rival 

 chdkrs. sects that the works of Aristotle were known at the time when they 

 are reported to have been lying in the cellar at Scepsis. Aristophanes 

 of Byzantium, the celebrated grammarian of Alexandria in the early 

 part of .the second century before Christ, made an abridgement of his 

 Zoological works, 6 and also wrote commentaries apparently on these, 

 or some other of his works relating to Natural History. 7 But before 

 his time, Antigonus of Carystus, under Ptolemy Euergetes (B. c. 247- 

 222), in his * Collection of Wonderful Stories,' quoted largely both 

 from these and from the works of Theophrastus on similar subjects. 

 Kopp says that he used not only these, but also the work on Foreign 

 Customs (/3ap/3apa vo/zt/ia), and that the same is probable both of 



1 Brandis, pp. 270, 272275. 



8 De Stoic. Repugn, p. 1045, fin. 



8 Brandis, pp. 246, 247. 



4 To the passages illustrative of this position collected by Baguet, De Chrysippi 

 Vit, Doctrina, et Keliquiis, pp. 170, 181, Brandis adds Aristol. Phys. Ausc. iv. 

 1014. 



3 Simplicius ap. Brandis, p. 247, note 30. 



6 ra irepl tpvcreus &uv. Hierocles cited by Schneider, Prsef. ad Hist. Arist. 

 p. xviii. 



7 Artemidorus, Oneirocr. ii. c. 14, on which see Schneider, p. xix. 



