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His philosophy, too, enjoyed a much greater popularity in the form of extracts or commentaries by Arabic philosophers in which, consequently, the thoughts of the Stagirite were presented in an Oriental guise, no matter how closely they were supposed by their authors to follow the original text.
Not a single one of them has come down to us, and the character of those quotations which we have before us, never seems, as far as we can now judge, to afford grounds for the slightest probability that we are concerned with the remains of a pure and complete text of a Platonic Dialogue; therefore, a certain doubt may be entertained as to whether the translations mentioned were verbal reproductions of an unaltered Platonic wording.
1 In Arabic philosophy, mostly in later times philosophical views which have very little relation, or none at all, to Plato's works, are connected with his name.
Ir 3a, the following quotation (the translation of the Greek text shows the radical alteration) : ARABIC TEXT : PLATO, Leges I, 631 B-C : " (The Goods are twofold, partly· " Plato says in the Book of human, partly divine ; but both de- Laws : pend on the divine, and if a city The divine Goods-what heads accepts the greater ones, it acquires them,2 is wisdom, then the acquisi- the lesser too, but if not, it forfeits tion of moderateness together with both).