[Footnote 57: The merit of these Arabic versions is freely
discussed by Renaudot, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. i. p.
812 - 816,) and piously defended by Casiri, (Bibliot. Arab.
Hispana, tom. i. p. 238 - 240.) Most of the versions of
Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, &c., are ascribed to
Honain, a physician of the Nestorian sect, who flourished at
Bagdad in the court of the caliphs, and died A.D. 876. He
was at the head of a school or manufacture of translations,
and the works of his sons and disciples were published under
his name. See Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 88, 115, 171 -
174, and apud Asseman. Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p. 438,)
D'Herbelot, (Bibliot. Orientale, p. 456,) Asseman.
(Bibliot. Orient. tom. iii. p. 164,) and Casiri, (Bibliot.
Arab. Hispana, tom. i. p. 238, &c. 251, 286 - 290, 302, 304,
&c.)]