Ἀκύλας
Aquila
Translated by Catharine Roth · 1 Apr 2000 · Vetting: high · 8 revisions
Translation
Philosopher. Wrote scholia on the logic of syllogisms.
Greek original
Ἀκύλας· φιλόσοφος. σχόλια λογικὰ γεγραφὼς περὶ συλλογισμῶν.
Betacode
*)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.
References
D.M. Shenkeveld, "The Philosopher Aquila," CQ 41 (1991) 490-495 (reference supplied by Malcolm Heath).
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