Excerpt from Aristotle: The Athenian Constitution, the Eudemian Ethics on Virtues and VicesBut in 1880 two small and much damaged Sheets of papyrus were found in the sands of Egypt which scholars eventually proved to come from a copy of the most important of all these constitutional treatises, the one on the Constitution of Athens. These sheets are now in the Berlin Museum. Palaeo graphers ascribe them to the fourth century a.d. Ten years later, among some papyrus rolls acquired from Egypt by the British Museum, the Librarian F. G. Kenyon recognized four sheets as containing a copy of almost the whole treatise. These sheets have writing on both Sides. On the front are some accounts of receipts and expenses kept by a farm bailiff named Didymus for his master Epimachus, near the Egyptian town of Hermopolis, in the tenth and eleventh years of Vespasian, a.d. 78 and 79. On the back is the Aristotelian treatise its beginning is wanting, and the first page of the book is blank, showing that it was copied from a damaged copy of the work; and the last roll is very fragmentary. Different parts are written in different hands, four in all; the script is said to date the copy at about a.d. 100. It was doubtless made for a private person (perhaps the writer of one of the four hands), and probably buried with its owner at his death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.