 It is my opinion that Alexander of Aphrodisias obviously understands the words of Aristotle well on other occasions—and does so better than the other Peripatetics, but, in the case of the things which Aristotle says concerning Plato, he does not seem to me to bear in mind that Aristotle’s counter-arguments are directed at the surface import of Plato’s statements (pros to phainomenon). But, contesting Plato frivolously (kakoscholôs) in a way, he tries not only, as Aristotle also does, to refute the surface import of what Plato says, taking simpler &lt;people&gt; into consideration, but he also attacks the ideas (tas ennoias) of the divine Plato and tries to draw consequences from what Plato says, frequently not even attending to the surface import.