treatise The Ten Categories (chapter 16). Augustine’s rhetoric professor and fellow students were much impressed by this work.* But Augustine read the treatise privately and understood it readily, leading him to wonder whether Aristotle was as great as was claimed. Augustine allows himself a brief note of approval (amid all the self-accusation of the early books of the Confessions) when he recalls how intellectually gifted he was. But that quickly turns to the confession that his intellectual abilities