 Despite the fact that he drew such preposterous consequences from it, Cook Wilson’s reading of Plato and Aristotle in OPD remained influential, albeit controversial, throughout the last century, through Ross’ edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1924, liii–lvii, ad B 3, 999a6–10 &amp; M 6, 1080a15–b4) and especially through its advocacy by Harold Cherniss in Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Academy (Cherniss 1944, App. vi) and The Riddle of the Early Academy (Cherniss 1945, 34–37 &amp; 76). Cherniss’ student Reginald Allen still claimed in the 1980s that Cook Wilson’s is the “true view of Plato’s arithmetic” (Allen 1983, 231–233). (For further endorsements of Cook Wilson’s reading see (Joseph 1948, 33 &amp; chap. v), (Klein 1968, 62) or (Tarán 1981, 13–18) and for criticisms see (Hardie 1936, chap. vi), (Austin 1979, 302) or (Burnyeat 2012, 166–167).)