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Excerpt from De Aristotelis Librorum Ordine Et Auctoritate Commentatio
Igitur philosophiae inventor Plato est, maxime in Philcbo, auctae vero supra modum inque nimiam subtilitatem versae Platonici, ma xime Speusippus Caeneus (arist. Anal. Post. 1, 12. Cf. Biog. L. 4, 2) alii, ab ipsius Platania manifesta ironia in Republica et Timaeo ludentis, in Legibus vero et Epin0mide legislatoris religioso sermone usi exemplis male intellectis profecti. Quorum studiorum Plutoni corum numerorumque dignitafis vestigia etiam in scriptorum medi corum collections Alexandrina quae Hippocratis nomine signabatur hic illic vestigia reperiuntur (cf. Etiam Androcydem, Cbrysippum medicum maximeque in libro nunc latine tantum servato de septenario Pbiloni noto. Sunt enim haec quoque scripta omnia temporis monuments Platone et ipso Aristotele posterioris nec magis quam Pythagoras Philolaus Timaeus Archytas auctor fuit etiam Hippocrates Socratis ille et Democriti aequalis, qui quod testantur Plato et qui uno tantum loco eum memorat Aristoteles magnus quidem fuit medicus nihil tamen scripta tradidit. [lli enim libri et ipsi optimi et qui a veteribus criticis in veri Hippocratis nomen selecti fuerunt, velut liber de diaeta in morbis acutis ab appendice quae vocatur post Platonis aetatem scripta minime separandus ut ipse auctor significat, licet iam inde Galeno usque ad Ermerin.
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