person
Nicomachus (son of Aristotle)
Nicomachus
also: Nicomachum, Nicomachus son of Aristotle
The son of Aristotle, after whom the Nicomachean Ethics is named. In De Finibus 5.12 Cicero notes that the carefully written ethical books are said to be by Nicomachus, though he sees no reason the son could not have been like the father.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.12 his son Nicomachus
Aristotle's son, after whom the Nicomachean Ethics is named. Cicero entertains the tradition that Nicomachus wrote those ethical books, but doubts it.