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Aelian, Varia Historia 8.1 and the Transmission of [Plato], Theages 128d2–3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. A. Joyal
M. A. Joyal
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Dilts (Teubner, 1974) prints ⋯c⋯ᾳ πομπῇ (⋯c⋯αν πομπ⋯c codd., corr. Faber). Hercher before him (Teubner, 1866) adopted the conjecture θε⋯α πομπή (Davis). Several pieces of evidence tell in favour of the latter text.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 297 - 298
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1996

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References

1 Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, vol. XXI.2 (Berlin, 1896): [sc.

2 Cf. e.g. Soph. El. 1156–8; PI. R. 620d8; Plu. Mor. 361c, Sull. 7.10; Cass. Dio 57.15.7; lamb. Myst. 3.16; Lyr. Adesp. 1018 (b) 3–7 (PMG); AP VI.182.5; see F. Pfister, RE suppl. 7, 106.

3 See Whittaker, J., ‘The Value of Indirect Tradition in the Establishment of Greek Philosophical Texts or the Art of Misquotation’, in J.N., Grant (ed.), Editing Greek and Latin Texts (New York, 1989), pp. 63–95, esp. 83–9; id., Alcinoos. Enseignment des doctrines de Platon (Paris, 1990), pp. xxii-v.Google Scholar

4 But Calcidius' use of comes in his quotation of Thg. 128d2–7 (in Ti. 263.20–264.2 Waszink) strongly suggests wape-rrofitvov as his model (see Waszink's apparatus fontium).