Magasin. Encyclop. Cinquième Annee,

Ascle'pius

3. Of Tralles, a Peripatetic philosopher and a disciple of Ammonius, the son of Hermias. He lived about A. D. 500.

Works

Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the ἀριθμητική of Nicomachus of Gerasa

Asclepius wrote commentaries on the first six or seven books of Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the ἀριθμητική of Nicomachus of Gerasa.

Editions

These commentaries are still extant in MS., but only a portion of them has yet been printed in Brandis, Scholia Graeca in Aristot. Metaphys. p. 518, &c.

Further Information

Comp. Fabr. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 258; St. Croix in the Magasin. Encyclop. Cinquième Annee, vol. iii. p. 359.

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