ASPASIUS  , a

Greek peripatetic philosopher, and a prolific commentator on Aristotle . He flourished probably towards the close of the 1st century A.D., or perhaps during the reign of Antoninus Pius . His commentaries on the Categories, De Interpretation, De Sensu, and other works ,of Aristotle are frequently referred to by later writers, but have not come down to us . Commentaries on Plato, mentioned by Porphyry in his life of Plotinus, have also been lost . Commentaries on books 1-4, 7 (in part), and 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics are preserved; that on book 8 was printed with those of Eustratius and others by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1536 . They were partly (2-4) translated into Latin by Felicianus in 1541, and have frequently been republished, but their authenticity has been disputed . The most recent .edition is by G . Heylbut in Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, xix . 1 (Berlin, 1889) . Another AsPAS1us, in the 3rd century A.D., was a Roman sophist and rhetorician, son or pupil of the rhetorician Demetrianus . He taught rhetoric in Rome, and filled the chair of rhetoric founded by Vespasian . He was secretary to the emperor Maximin .

His orations, which are praised for their

style, are lost .