[Footnote 9: Cicero, Acad. Prior. ii. 38, 119: "Quum enim tuus iste Stoicus sapiens syllabatim tibi ista dixerit, veniet flumen orationis aureum fundens Aristoteles, qui illum desipere dicat." Also Topica, i. 3. "Quibus (_i.e._ those who were ignorant of Aristotle) eo minus ignoscendum est, quod non modo rebus iis, quæ ab illo dictæ et inventæ sunt, adlici debuerunt, sed dicendi quoque incredibili quâdam quum copiâ, tum suavitate." Also De Oratore, i. 11, 49; Brutus, 31, 121; De Nat. Deor. ii. 37; De Inventione, ii. 2; De Finibus, i. 5, 14; Epistol. ad Atticum, ii. 1, where he speaks of the "Aristotelia pigmenta," along with the [Greek: murothê/kion] of Isokrates. Dionysius Hal. recommends the style of Aristotle in equal terms of admiration: [Greek: paralêpte/on de\ kai\ A)ristote/lê ei)s mi/mêsin tê=s te peri\ tê\n e(rmênei/an deino/têtos kai\ tê=s saphênei/as, kai\ tou= ê(de/os kai\ polumathou=s] (De Veter. Script. Censurâ, p. 430, R.; De Verb. Copiâ, p. 187). Quintilian extols the "eloquendi suavitas" among Aristotle's excellences (Inst. Or. X. i. p. 510). Demetrius Phalereus (or the author who bears that title), De Eloquentiâ, s. 128, commends [Greek: ai( A)ristote/lous cha/rites]. David the Armenian, who speaks of him (having reference to the dialogue) as [Greek: A)phrodi/tês e)nno/mou ge/môn] (the correction of Bernays, Dial. des Arist. p. 137) [Greek: kai\ chari/tôn a)na/mestos], probably copies the judgment of predecessors (Scholia ad Categor. p. 26, b. 36, Brandis). Bernays (Die Dialoge des Aristoteles, pp. 3-5) points out how little justice has been done by modern critics to the literary merits, exhibited in the dialogues and other works now lost, of one whom _we_ know only as a "dornichten und wortkargen Systematiker."] [Footnote 10: This opinion is insisted on by Ravaisson, Essai sur la Métaphysique d'Aristote, pp. 210, 211.] [Footnote 11: Valentine Rose, Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus, p. 23: "Cicero philosophicis certe ipsius Aristotelis libris nunquam usus est." Heitz, Die Verlor. Schrift. des Aristot. pp. 31, 158, 187: "Cicero, dessen Unbekanntschaft mit beinahe sämmtlichen heute vorhandenen Werken des Aristoteles eine unstreitige Thatsache bildet, deren Bedeutung man sich umsonst bemüht hat abzuschwächen." Madvig, Excursus VII. ad Ciceron. De Finibus, p. 855: "Non dubito profiteri, Ciceronem mihi videri dialogos Aristotelis populariter scriptos, et Rhetorica (quibus hic Topica adnumero) tum [Greek: politei/as] legisse; difficiliora vero, quibus omnis interior philosophia continebatur, aut omnino non attigisse, aut si aliquando attigerit, non longe progressum esse, ut ipse de subtilioribus Aristotelis sententiis aliquid habere possit explorati." The language here used by Madvig is more precise than that of the other two; for Cicero must be allowed to have known, and even to have had in his library, the Topica of Aristotle.]