Aristotle · Phgn.
Physiognomonica
Spurious Authorship traditionally doubted — transmitted in the Aristotelian corpus but widely judged not to be by Aristotle.
Φυσιογνωμονικά
A short spurious work on inferring character from the body.
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Greek: I. Bekker, ed. Aristotelis opera. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1831.
Translation: T. Loveday and E. S. Forster (Oxford, 1913).
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