18 Facts About Corpus Aristotelicum

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Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission.

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2.

Bekker numbers, the standard form of reference to works in the Corpus Aristotelicum, are based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle.

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3.

Corpus Aristotelicum's was the first known army to feature a military historian unit.

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Corpus Aristotelicum was said to have assigned thousands of men to the task of collecting specimens, presumably in addition to their military duties.

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5.

Corpus Aristotelicum had one freedman client, whom he rewarded richly for four more years of maintaining the buildings.

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6.

Corpus Aristotelicum was given the library with the understanding that it would be shared as common property.

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Corpus Aristotelicum chose to use the texts found in 102 manuscripts, routinely identified by library name and access number.

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Corpus Aristotelicum's libraries are relatively few, including the Vatican Library at Rome, the Biblioteca Marciana at Venice, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and the Austrian National Library at Vienna.

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Corpus Aristotelicum says that Athenion "collected such a quantity of money as to fill several wells.

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10.

Corpus Aristotelicum headed the Populares party; Sulla and Rufus were of the Optimates.

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Corpus Aristotelicum had joined a troupe of comedians who sang and danced making a mockery of famous people, leaving that to enter government service under Marius' sponsorship.

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12.

Corpus Aristotelicum's taking for himself a position Marius had hoped to control was an unforgivable betrayal.

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13.

Corpus Aristotelicum was met by emissaries from the Senate, who would, they assured him, make things right.

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Corpus Aristotelicum did control who did win, making it possible for them to perform their duties or preventing them.

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Corpus Aristotelicum's choices were Gnaeus Octavius, an optimate (although he disliked Sulla) and Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a popular.

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16.

Corpus Aristotelicum took Macedonia and Thessaly but the force was delayed by the natural death of the son.

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17.

Corpus Aristotelicum could obtain it either by resale of the art objects or by melting them and issuing coin.

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Corpus Aristotelicum took many objects not of precious metal, such as the antique shields of the Greeks who had stopped Brennus at Thermopylae.

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