[Footnote 27: The testimony of Porphyry in respect to Andronikus, and to the real service performed by Andronikus, is highly valuable. Porphyry was the devoted disciple and friend, as well as the literary executor, of Plotinus; whose writings were left in an incorrect and disorderly condition. Porphyry undertook to put them in order and publish them; and he tells us that, in fulfilling this promise, he followed the example of what Andronikus had done for the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus. [Greek: E)pei\ de\ au)to\s] (Plotinus) [Greek: tê\n dio/rthôsin kai\ tê\n dia/taxin tô=n bibli/ôn poiei=sthai ê(mi=n e)pe/trepsen, e)gô\ de\ e)kei/nô| zô=nti u(pescho/mên kai\ toi=s a)/llois e(tai/rois e)pêggeila/mên poiê=sai tou=to, prô=ton me\n ta\ bi/blia ou) kata\ chro/nous e)a=sai phu/rdên e)kdedome/na e)dikai/ôsa, mimêsa/menos d' A)pollo/dôron to\n A)thênai=on kai\ A)ndro/nikon to\n Peripatêtiko/n, ô(=n o( me\n E)pi/charmon to\n kômô|diogra/phon ei)s de/ka to/mous phe/rôn sunê/gagen, o( de\ ta\ A)ristote/lous kai\ Theophra/stou ei)s pragmatei/as diei=le, ta\s oi)kei/as u(pothe/seis ei)s tau)to\n sunagagô/n, ou(/tô dê\ kai\ e)gô\ pentê/konta te/ssarau)/nta e)/chôn ta\ tou= Plôti/nou bi/blia diei=lon me\n ei)s e(\x e)nnea/das, tê=| teleio/têti tou= e(\x a)rithmou= kai\ tai=s e)nnea/sin a)sme/nôs e)pituchô/n, e(ka/stê| de\ e)nnea/di ta\ oi)kei=a phe/rôn sunepho/rêsa, dou\s kai\ ta/xin prô/tên toi=s e)laphrote/rois problê/masin.] (Porphyry, Vita Plotini, p. 117, Didot.) Porphyry here distinctly affirms that Andronikus rendered this valuable service not merely to the works of Aristotle, but also to those of Theophrastus. This is important, as connecting him with the library conveyed by Sylla to Rome; which library we know to have contained the manuscripts of both these philosophers. And in the Scholion appended to the Metaphysica of Theophrastus (p. 323, Brandis) we are told that Andronikus and Hermippus had made a catalogue of the works of Theophrastus, in which the Metaphysics was not included.] [Footnote 28: Strabo, xiii. 609: [Greek: bibliopô=lai/ tines grapheu=si phau/lois chrô/menoi kai\ ou)k a)ntiba/llontes], &c.]