182 GREEK PHILOSOPHY. 



Valerius Maximus, spoken of in the last article, could only belong to 

 Alexander's preceptor. In spite of this, Victorius and Buhle have 

 attributed the work to Callisthenes. We should be inclined to consider 

 it the performance of a sophist of a very late date, and should regard 

 the allusion to Theodectes as a confirmation of the opinion. 



XXXVIII. On the Poetic Art. (Trepi TroiTjrucT/e). 



On the subject of this work we have already given our opinion. It 

 has been considered by some a fragment of the two books ' On Poets,' 

 which Macrobius quotes, but it hardly seems possible to consider it 

 in this light. If it is derived in any way from a published work, it 

 must have been by a process of epitomizing and selecting, and that not 

 very skilfully. 



