ABSTRACT
Looking at the mediocre character of the Peripatos in his own day, Strabo attributed its decline to the failure of Aristotelians to safeguard their texts:
Thus it was that the older Peripatetics who came after Theophrastus did not possess the books at all — except for a few, and in particular the exoteric works - and so were not able to do any serious philosophy but merely declaimed generalities. 1
