Nicolaus
2. A native of Laodiceia, who lived, according to Abú-l-Faraj (Hist. Dynast. p. 88), in the latter half of the fourth century after Christ.
Works
He wrote a work De Summa Philosophiae Aristotelicae, which was translated into Syriac by Honain Ibn Ishak; another De Plantis, which is quoted by 'Abdú-l-Latíf (Histor. Aeqeypti Compeopend. pp. 19, 27); and a third, Liber Responsionis ad illos qui Rem unam esse statuunt Intellectum et Intelligibilia. To these Wenrich (De Auctr,. Graecor. Version. et Comment, Syriac. Arab. Armen. et Pers. Lips. 1842, p. 294) adds two others, viz. Compendium Philosophiae Aristoteleae, and Aristotelis Historia Animalium in Compendium redacta. (See also De Sacy's Note on Abdu l-Latff, p. 77.)
This is no doubt the Nicolaus, whose work De Philosophia Aristotelis is quoted by Rhazes (Contin. 11.4, vol. i. p. 228, ed. 1506).
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