2. A native of Laodiceia, who lived, according to Abú-l-Faraj (Hist.
Dynast. p. 88), in the latter half of the fourth century after Christ.
Works
He wrote a work
De Summa Philosophiae Aristotelicae, which was
translated into Syriac by Honain Ibn Ishak; another
De Plantis,
which is quoted by 'Abdú-l-Latíf (
Histor. Aeqeypti
Compeopend. pp. 19, 27); and a third,
Liber Responsionis ad illos
qui Rem unam esse statuunt Intellectum et Intelligibilia. To these Wenrich (
De Auctr,. Graecor. Version. et Comment, Syriac. Arab. Armen. et Pers.
Lips. 1842, p. 294) adds two others, viz.
Compendium Philosophiae
Aristoteleae, and
Aristotelis Historia Animalium in Compendium
redacta. (See also De Sacy's Note on Abdu l-Latff,
p. 77.)
This is no doubt the Nicolaus, whose work
De Philosophia
Aristotelis is quoted by Rhazes (
Contin. 11.4, vol. i. p. 228,
ed. 1506).