How Were Aristotle's Works Recovered?

One theory about how hos works were preserved and recovered after the Library of Alexandria burnt down is described by Stabo in his Geography and Plutarch in his Parallel Lives. It is said the manuscrpits were left by Aristotle to his successor, Theophrastus, who then left them to Neleus of Scepsis in his will. According to Stabo and Plutarch, Nelus took the writing from Atens to Scepsis (a disciple of Aristotle), where they were left in a cellar until the 1st century BC. They were then discovered by Apellicon of Teos who purchased the manuscripts and brought them back to Athens. Supposedly, Apellicon tried to repair some of the damage done while the scripts were in the basement resulting in errors produced in the text. Later, Lucius Cornelis Sulla occupied Athens and brought the Library of Apellicon to Rome where the texts were first oublished in 60 BC.