INTRODUCTION 



Theophrastus of Eresos {circ. 372-287), the suc- 

 cessor of Aristotle as head of the Peripatetic school, 

 wrote Ilepl ^wwi' (Athen. 387 b), Uepl twv 6aK(T(iiv 

 KOI p\i]TiKu>v (Athen. 314 c), Hepl twv ixeTafSaWovTwv 

 Ttts XP^"'* (Athen. 317 f), Hepl twv c^A.evovTwv 

 (Athen. 314 b, etc.), Hepl roii' ev tw ^rjpio 8taiTw/xeva)v 

 (Athen. 312b: diaTpL/Sovrdiv 317 f), Hepl tcov Kara 

 TOTTou? 6iacf>opwv (Athen. 317 f), which are known to 

 us only by quotations. 



Aristophanes of Byzantium (circ. 257—180 b.c.) 

 made an Epitome of Aristotle's History of AnimaU, 

 which was used by Aelian (circ a.d. 200) and Suidas 

 (arc. A.D. 950) and is perhaps identical with the 

 pseudo-Aristotelian ^(dlko. (Athen. 319 d, etc.). This 

 Epitome was extracted by Sopatros of Apameia (4th 

 cent. A.D.), cf. Phot. Bibl. 104 b 26 6 ^e evSeKaros exei 

 TTjv (Twayioyr^y . . . ciAAa p.rjv Kal eK Toiv ApiiTTO- 

 (fidvovs Toi) ypajxpaTLKov irepl ^wajv l3ifdXiov irputrov 

 KOI SexTepov. Extracts were also made from the 

 Epitome for Constantine VII. (Porph\Togennetos), 

 Emperor a.d. 912-959 fed. Spuridion Lambros, Suppl. 

 Aristot. 1. Berlin 1885 J. 



Clearchus of Soli (3rd cent. B.c.) wrote Hepl evvSpcjv 

 (Athen. 332 b, cf. 317 c]. Nicander of Colophon 

 (b. circ. 200 b.c) wrote the extant Tkeriaca and Alexi- 

 pharmaca, the former on the bites of venomous 

 animals and their remedies, the latter on antidotes 

 to poison. Tryphon of Alexandria (1st cent, b.c.) 

 wrote Hepl {^w'wv (Suid. s. Tpvf^xav, Athen. 324 f). 

 Dorion (for whom see Athen. 337 b, M. Wellmann, 

 Hermes 23 [1888]) wrote, in 1st cent, ac, Hepl 

 i\dvuiv, frequently cited by Athenaeus. Juba II., 

 king of Mauretania, after the death of his father in 

 46 ac, was brought a prisoner (Plut. Caes. 55 'lo/ias 



