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Wiener Studien Band 138/2025Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
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Wiener Studien 138/2025, pp. 7-20, 2025/07/21
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
Among Aristotle’s recommendations on how to collect extracts from the works of other authors, the act of παρασημαίνεσθαι plays a role that is often misunderstood. This paper argues that the proper meaning of this technical term is that of recording alongside the extracts, usually in the margins, the names of authors whose words are quoted anonymously in the body ofthe text. This practice should also be considered when trying to explain why many quotations by Aristotle and his associates are anonymous or attributed to a generic τις, with special reference to works by medical authors.