Ascle'pius
3. Of Tralles, a Peripatetic philosopher and a disciple of Ammonius, the son of Hermias.
He lived about A. D. 500.
Works
Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the ἀριθμητική of Nicomachus of Gerasa
Asclepius wrote commentaries on the first six or seven books of Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the
ἀριθμητική of Nicomachus of Gerasa.
Editions
These commentaries are still extant in MS., but only a portion of them has yet been printed in
Brandis, Scholia Graeca in Aristot. Metaphys. p. 518, &c.
Further Information
Comp. Fabr.
Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 258; St. Croix in the
Magasin. Encyclop. Cinquième Annee, vol. iii. p. 359.
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