（杂志）古典哲学1921年2月号.pdfVIP

Classical Philology XVI NUMBER2 VOLUME April. 1921 THE TRADITION OF GREEK ARITHMOLOGY BY FRANK EGLESTON ROBBINS The attacked in the is the determination problem following pages of the sources and relationships of the ancient arithmological writings, including principally those of Varro, Philo, Nicomachus, Theon of the of the Arithmeticae, Smyrna, Anatolius, compilator Theologumena Chalcidius, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Favonius Eulogius, and Johannes Laurentius Lydus. The difficulty of the problem, the necessity of hypothetical reasoning, and the ease with which error may be committed are acknowledged at the outset. The situation presented by the above-mentioned writings much resembles that seen in the Synoptic Gospels, and methods similar to those used by New Testament critics should be employed in its elucidation. Whole passages of one author are repeated in one or more others, and the topics of arithmology are so frequently paralleled that to determine the exact provenance of any one may be well-nigh impossible. The problem therefore has to be handled in a large way and the main currents of influence determined, a thing which the previous essays in this field have not satisfactorily done. They have, moreover, without exception followed Schmekel in regarding l The following are most frequently referred to: A. Schmekel, Die Philosophie der mittleren Stoa in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelung, B