Sentence examples for ancient commentary from inspiring English sources

A brief ancient commentary on Aristotle's Analytika Protera ("Prior Analytics") may be his too; he also wrote two short works on the syllogism.

Proclus' commentary on Plato's Cratylus is the only ancient commentary on this work to have come down to us, and is illuminating in two special ways.

Echoing the style of the Talmud, the book presents a continuing narrative in the center of each right-hand page, where a passage from the Mishna -- ancient commentary on the Torah -- would ordinarily be placed.

(For more on the ancient commentary tradition, see Sorabji 1990).

Due to the closure of the Academy in 529 and the dominance of the Latin language in the West to the virtual exclusion of Greek, little of the ancient commentary tradition exerted any influence on the Latin Middle Ages.

Some of the ancient commentaries are fragments, but others have several hundred lines, including one that has about 500 entries.

A considerable contribution to the knowledge of Aristotle came from the translations of the ancient commentaries; nearly all of these were made from the Greek.

David Rivault's edition and Latin translation (1615) of the complete works, including the ancient commentaries, was enormously influential in the work of some of the best mathematicians of the 17th century, notably René Descartes (1596 1650) and Pierre de Fermat (1601 65).

Just ask Gene Russianoff, who is staff attorney for the riders' advocacy group known as the Straphangers Campaign and a man who studies transit reports the way a Talmudic scholar pores over ancient commentaries.

Ancient commentaries and scholia.

Boethius's own two commentaries were very influential as well and provided information about other ancient commentaries (Magee 2010).