The edition was used by Nicholas of Damascus, a historian and philosopher, in an attempt to expound Aristotle's system.
But attempts "to expound a poet's probable meanings" are just the beginning for Bromwich; getting to know a poet's work, he writes, is an "experience like getting to know a person".
At first he attempted, unconvincingly, to expound these ideas as new, alternative laws of physics (Beiträge zur Optik [1791 92; Optical Essays]).
In the following century the Turkish Muslim al-Fārābī produced a more specialized study in which he commented upon and expounded the books of logic and attempted to establish the relationship between philosophy and Islam.
He also wrote more than a dozen treatises expounding the doctrines of the Ismāʿīlīs, among them the Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn ("Union of the Two Wisdoms"), in which he attempted to harmonize Ismāʿīlī theology and Greek philosophy.
He attempted to supply one.
My father attempted to intercede.
Wasil Mohammed attempted to escape.
The ruling dynasty's origins, especially as expounded in later palace genealogies, are also of doubtful accuracy; this is, in part, because the Wodeyars, who were reinstated by the British on the Mysore gaddi in 1799, to preside over a fragile sovereignty, "obsessively" attempted to demonstrate their "unbroken" royal lineage, to bolster their then uncertain status.
He used the witness stand as a venue to expound at great length on his own role in the Reich, attempting to present himself as a peacemaker and diplomat before the outbreak of the war.
