Excerpt from A Defence of a Late Pamphlet, &C
Next, p. 6, 7, 8, he talks very imperti uently he knows not what, about Andronicus Rhodius's Paraphrafe upon the Nicomachean Ethics of Ari/lode. Had be but confulted the Preface to the Cambridge Edition, though he had gone no farther, he would have feen what ancient Evidence there is to believe that Andronicus Rhodias, the famous Peripa tetic Teacher was the Author of it. What has Mr. 7. To alledge againfl him This great Dealer in fecond-band Citations has got none but negative or dumb Evidence. A ms. Of this Book, fays Dr. Bentley, has no Name of an Author to it and in Daniel Heinfius's Copy, Andronicus's Name was added by a modern and unlearned Hand. Therefore, concludes our modern improv'd Critic, Andronicus Rhodias was not the Art thor of the Paraphrafe; though yet he is the ancient Claimant and Pofi'efibt of it, and none but our Critic's non-entities have ever dipted it. Mind his Argument, for 'tis a fpecial one.
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