On the Soul, Parva Naturalia, On Breath

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ARISTOTLE

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ON THE SOUL PARVA NATURALIA ON BREATH

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ON LENGTH AND SHORTNESS OF LIFEIntroduction Text and Translation

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ON YOUTH AND OLD AGE. DEATHText and Translation

INTRODUCTION

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ON RESPIRATIONText and Translation ON BREATH: Introduction Text and Translation

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ARISTOTLE, the man, we know; the works of Aristotle, the philosopher, present almost insuperable problems. We know as much of the life of Aristotle as of most of Hellas' great men, but we find it difficult, if not impossible, to regard his work as his contemporaries regarded it. His writing was considered a model of Greek prose style at its best, but no one who reads his works as they have come down to us could subscribe to this view. In the treatises comprised in this volume, the philosopher is sometimes lucid and bald, sometimes involved and obscure, and sometimes even unintelligible, but very rarely brilliant in style. Yet we need not necessarily blame Aristotle for this. In days when there was no copyright corruption of the text was fatally easy, and if we are to believe Strabo, the works of Aristotle were peculiarly unfortunate in this respect. According to that author, Aristotle left his library to Theophrastus, who handed it on to others. It passed through a good many hands, including those of one Apellicon, who is delightfully described by Strabo as " a bookworm, rather than a philosopher," by whom the gaps in the manuscript caused by damp and moth were filled in "not well." Later on still, when Sulla captured Athens, it was transferred to Rome, and edited by inferior clerks under the direction of

INDEXES1. Index Nominum 2. Index Rerum.

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