Letters & fragments
Each inventory follows the numbering of an identified edition. “Complete” refers to that edition and document type; it does not claim to cover every surviving document by the philosopher.
The coverage labels distinguish fully indexed corpora from lists that remain partial.
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, V.6–16; R. D. Hicks (1925), Perseus XML
Partial inventory for this editionThree transmitted documents are identified by sections of the witness, checked in the Perseus text. These are not Rose, Ross or Gigon fragment numbers, nor an exhaustive inventory of lost works.
Open this inventoryReference editionnew tabValentin Rose, Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta, Leipzig: Teubner, 1886, nos. 1–680
Complete inventory for this editionComplete inventory of Rose’s 680 numbered units (1886): 1–675 in the main text, followed by 676–680 in the Appendix dubiorum. One unit can contain several quotations, testimonies or subfragments; the numbers therefore count neither works nor unique quotations. Some numbers share a printed passage. Numerical titles are editorial reference labels, not ancient titles or translations of the fragments. Rose regarded these writings collectively as pseudepigraphic; that judgment is not a modern verdict on every attribution. Ross, Gigon and later discoveries define different corpora. The unnumbered Life of Aristotle following the appendix is excluded.
Open this inventoryReference editionnew tabValentin Rose, Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta, Leipzig: Teubner, 1886, LVI. Epistolae, nos. 651–670
Partial inventory for this editionAll twenty units of Rose’s Letters section are identified here with modern subject descriptions. These are the same references 651–670 as in the fragment inventory, not twenty additional documents. They combine quotations, transmitted letters and testimonies, sometimes several under one number; they cannot reconstruct a complete correspondence. Lost collections, pseudepigraphic traditions and their Arabic or medieval continuations require separate editions. No addressee or date is supplied by conjecture.
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