| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.01.09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The textual evidence is somewhat convoluted, because Theophrastus' original treatises were first quarried by the compilers of the pseudo-Aristotelian "Problemata", which comes down to us in the Corpus Aristotelicum, and then later read and excerpted by Photius in his "Library". |
 | | We must try to refer the particular occurrences, concerning which people are perplexed [aporousi], to the reasons for which they happen to come about....All these things and anything else like them have their reason [aitiai] in what was said before. |
 | | These lines, which come after a swift introductory review of the causes of dizziness and before the detailed consideration of cases, could stand as a rubric for the whole Peripatetic corpus of Problem-literature, showing how it conforms to the general philosophical methodology of Aristotle and his followers. |
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