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Sophocles' Ajax: Collations of the Manuscripts G, R, and Q,

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

P. E. Easterling
P. E. Easterling
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Newnham College, Cambridge
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Since the appearance in 1952 of Alexander Turyn's Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Sophocles it has been quite clear that editors must abandon the traditional stemma and with it much of their traditional thinking about the text. One of Turyn's most important contributions to Sophoclean studies has been his treatment of what he calls the vetustiores.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , May 1967 , pp. 52 - 79
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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References

1 Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, vol. xxxvi, nos. 1–2.Google Scholar

2 λ = L, Laurentianus 32, 9 and A, Leiden B. P. G. 60A.

3 ρ = G, Florence, Conv. Soppr. 152; R, Vaticanus gr. 2291; Q,, Parisinus suppl. gr. 109; M, Modena a. T. 9. 4, containing scholia only.

4 ‘Sulla tradizione manoscritta degli scolii sofoclei’, Stud. It. Fil. Class. N.S. xiii (1936), 3–44Google Scholar and ‘De scholiis in Sophoclis tragoedias veteribus’, Mem. Ace. Naz. Linc. cl. di sci. morale, storiche e filologiche, s. VI, vol. vi, fasc. 2 (1937).Google Scholar

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6 Ibid. xxviii (1956), 105–10 and xxxi (1959), 478–81.

7 Cambridge, 1964, especially Chapter II, The Method of Enquiry.

1 This work was begun under the direction of Professor Page, who had every right to expect that it would be finished years ago. His patient forbearance over my delays and his sympathetic criticism have been more helpful than I can say.

2 An obvious example of one of these exceptional cases is a correct metrical emendation in lyrics in a pre-Triclinian manuscript.

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1 On 628:

1 It is a pity that the readings of the Roman family are so carelessly reported in that apparatus.

1 Perhaps one should note at this point that the scholia of G, R, and Q, contain occasional references to Tzetzes, but, as De Marco has clearly demonstrated, the ‘Roman’ scholia are overwhelmingly ancient and there is no need to see any great significance in this connexion with Tzetzes.

2 I have found no trace of ‘real’ metrical emendation in ρ: at 991 in G and R could be explained as a misguided attempt to restore the metre (cf. L's behaviour at 783, where ρ keeps ), but it is much more likely that these are no more than trivial substitutions.

1 Cf. Schadewaldt, , Hellas und Hesperien, p. 292. (I owe the reference to Professor Lloyd–Jones.)Google Scholar

1 Studies, p. 127.Google Scholar

1 The point has been forcefully made by Dr. Dawe on the basis of his collations of Aeschylean manuscripts (Investigation, pp. 102–3).Google Scholar

2 Cf. De Marco's remarks in his article on the Scholia (Stud. It. Fil. Class. N.S. xiii (1936), 37Google Scholar): ‘assai sovente la sigla γρ che accompagna tali varianti non è da intendere come l'attestazione del fatto oggettivo che altrove il passo in questione è altrimenti riferito, ma è piuttosto suggerimento esplicito a manomettere il testo adeguandolo al non elevato livello dei lettori e del grammatico che quella correzione ha proposta.’

3 Or, more cautiously, reverse the arrangement in the exemplar, e.g. 535

1 Or possibly, as Dr. Dawe has suggested to me, R remembered from elsewhere in the play.

2 Not that there were not plenty of critically minded scribes, particularly in periods like the fourteenth century, but owners' alterations are to be found in very many of our extant manuscripts, and are often extremely haphazard and sparse.

3 I feel less sure now than I did seven years ago (C.Q. N.s. x. 1 (1960), 51–64).Google Scholar

4 Sophocle, tome I (Les Trachiniennes, Antigone), Introduction, pp. xxiii–xlviii.Google Scholar

5 As Irigoin, J. has pointed out (R.É.G. lxvii (1954), 507–11.Google Scholar