Editing Theophrastus (section)

=== Metaphysics ===
The ''Metaphysics'' (anachronistic Greek title: {{lang|grc|Θεοφράστου τῶν μετὰ τὰ φυσικά}}),<ref>[[Dimitri Gutas]] (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=YdIIYCpEXHMC ''Theophrastus – On First Principles: known as His Metaphysics''], Brill, 2010, p. 10.</ref> in nine chapters (also known as ''On First Principles''), was considered a fragment of a larger work by Usener in his edition (Theophrastos<!--[sic]-->, ''Metaphysica'', Bonn, 1890), but according to Ross and Fobes in their edition (Theophrastus, ''Metaphysica'', Oxford, 1929), the treatise is complete (p.&nbsp;X) and this opinion is now widely accepted. There is no reason for assigning this work to some other author because it is not noticed in [[Hermippus of Smyrna|Hermippus]] and [[Andronicus of Rhodes|Andronicus]], especially as [[Nicolaus of Damascus]] had already mentioned it.<ref name="SmithDGRBM" />