Note 429 — Chapter XII
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Perizonius has proved that Ælian transferred large portions of the Deipnosophistæ of Athenæus to his Varia Historia, a robbery which must have been committed almost in the lifetime of the pillaged author: that Ælian extended such transference to his Natural History also, his story of the Pinna, and others would seemingly demonstrate. Sir J. E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, ed. 2 (Cambridge, 1906), i. 336, goes so far as to say: “He is the author of seventeen books On Animals, mainly borrowed from Alexander of Myndos (first century a.d.).”