Noctes Atticae

Rescripsit ei Aristoteles ad hanc sententiam: Acroaticos libros, quos editos quereris et non proinde ut arcana absconditos, neque editos scito esse neque non editos, quoniam his solis cognobiles erunt, qui nos audiverunt. [*](qui audiverunt added by Hertz.)

Exempla utrarumque litterarum sumpta ex Andronici philosophi libro subdidi; amavi [*](amavi scripsi; amavi autem, a; an autem, ω; en autem, Rose. Prosus seems to call for a preceding verb or adjective; see my article in Class. Phil. xvii (1922), 144 ff. Otherwise I should prefer the en autem of Rose.) prosus in utriusque epistula brevitatis elegantissimae filum tenuissimum:

Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀριστοτέλει εὖ πράττειν.

Οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἐποίησας, ἐκδοὺς τοὺς ἀκροατικοὺς[*](ἀκροαματικούςPlut.) τῶν λόγων· τίνι γὰρ δὴ διοίσομεν ἡμεῖς τῶν ἄλλων, εἰ καθʼ οὓς ἐπαιδεύθημεν λόγους, οὗτοι πάντων ἔσονται κοινοί; ἐγὼ δὲ βουλοίμην ἂν ταῖς περὶ τὰ ἄριστα ἐμπειράαις ἢ ταῖς δυνάμεσιν διαφέρειν. ἔρρωσο.

Ἀριστοτέλης βασιλεῖ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ εὖ πράττειν.

Ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ τῶν ἀκροατικῶν λόγων, οἰόμενος δεῖν αὐτοὺς φυλάττειν ἐν ἀπορρήτοις. ἴσθι οὖν αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐκδεδομένους καὶ μὴ ἐκδεδομένουσ· ξυνετοὶ γάρ εἰσιν μόνοις τοῖς ἡμῶν ἀκούσασιν. ἔρρωσο, Ἀλέξανδρε βασιλεῦ.