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Headword:
*)aku/las
Adler number: alpha,1041
Translated headword: Aquila
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Philosopher. Wrote
scholia on the logic of syllogisms.
Greek Original:*)aku/las: filo/sofos. sxo/lia logika\ gegrafw\s peri\ sullogismw=n.
Notes:
OCD(4) p.129, '
Aquila Romanus' (by Michael Winterbottom). He is the author of a surviving treatise
On Figures of Thought and Speech.
Syrianus' commentary on
Hermogenes often cites a Neoplatonic philosopher named
Aquila who wrote on rhetorical subjects; he could well be this man. Also, Flavius
Sosipater Charisius cites a passage of C. Iulius Romanus which quotes a work of an
Aquila,
On the ten categories of Aristotle; this may be the same man as well. He would have lived in the third or early 4th century AD.
Reference:
D.M. Shenkeveld, "The Philosopher Aquila," CQ 41 (1991) 490-495 (reference supplied by Malcolm Heath).
Keywords: biography; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 April 2000@22:41:59.
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