of the Nicomachean Ethics which, has Of Virtues and Vices appended, in a hand dating probably at the beginning of the thirteenth century F c, the fourteenth-century Laurentian ms. Susemihl uses chiefly four mss.: L b, the twelfth-century Paris ms.
The only considerable later work on the text is that of Susemihl, who included this essay in the volume containing the Eudemian Ethics (Teubner, Leipzig, 1884) his text has full critical notes, a few selections from which are given here.
Page-numbers, columns ( a and b) and lines are printed in the margin here. 1249–1251 in the second volume Bekker gives no critical notes. The text of this edition is based on that of Bekker in the Berlin Aristotle, 1833, where Περὶ ἀρετῶν καὶ κακιῶν occupies pp. or later), of which miscellany the present essay forms c. of the Florilegium of Joannes Stobaeus (John of Stobi in Macedonia, fifth century a.d. Some further evidence is supplied by the mss. This book serves as additional evidence for our text. Under his name, though scholars usually assign it to a later date, there has come down to us a treatise Περὶ παθῶν, and appended to this treatise is an essay On Virtues and Vices which is a copy of the one before us, though the order of the contents has been rearranged. Andronicus edited and commentated on the Master’s works, making some modifications of his own in logic and psychology.
The earlier date suggested brings it within range of Andronicus of Rhodes, who was head of the Peripatetic School at Athens in Cicero’s student days. and perhaps in the first century a.d., and sees in it an author of no great ability, apparently a Peripatetic, attempting to reconcile the moral philosophy of Aristotle with that of Plato. Susemihl a agrees with Zeller that the book probably belongs to the eclectic period he dates it not earlier than the first century b.c.