Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
The work with which I am concerned is not the one that appears under the name of Tryphon in Rhetores Graeci, viii. 726–60 Walz, iii. 191–206 Spengel, but the one that appears under the name of Gregory of Corinth, viii. 761–78 W. and iii. 215–26 Sp. What I now offer amounts to a makeshift edition. I call it makeshift, because I have not sought out and assessed all existing manuscripts of the work, or versed myself in Greek grammatical writing to the extent that a serious editor would have to do; I offer it because, whatever its deficiencies, it represents a more complete and a recensionally better founded text than those of the three existing editions, the most recent of which is now 109 years old.
1 Stroux, J. ap. Wilcken, p. 23. The men by whom they were written, or to whom they were attributed, are indeed normally classed as grammarians: Tryphon, Choeroboscus, Gregory of Corinth. Nothing is known about Cocondrius.Google Scholar
1 In general these characteristics, as well as a certain amount of material, are shared by the works .
1 Allatius' report ‘scheint auf einem Irrturn zu beruhen’ (Wendel, C., R.-E. vii A 730). I suppose this means that Wendel could not find the work in the Vatican catalogues; but that does not prove much. Allatius must at any rate have found it in a manuscript somewhere, for it was not printed until 162 years after his death.Google Scholar
3 Zeitschr.f. Altert. 1838, 1053; Philologus xxv (1867), 347.Google Scholar
4 Oellacher, H., Mitteilungen aus d. Papyrus-sammlung der Nationalbibl. in Wien iii (1939), pp. 59–61.Google Scholar
5 On Gregory's date see Maas, P., Byz.- Neugr. Jb. ii (1921), 53–55.Google Scholar
1 A good parallel for this relationship is provided by Anon. iii. 174–88 Sp., in comparison with Zonaeus, ibid., pp. 161–70.
2 The phrase is Gohn's, , R.-E. iii. 2364.Google Scholar
3 Cf. Hilgard, A., Grammatici Graeci, iv. 2 (1894), praef. pp. lxiii–lxviiiGoogle Scholar; Krumbacher, K., Gesch. d. byz. Litt.2, p. 583Google Scholar; Maas, , Byz. Zeitschr. xxv (1925), 359Google Scholar. Lud-wich, A., De loanne Philopono grammatico (Progr. Königsberg, 1888), p. 9Google Scholar, argued that be Demosthenes Thrax, the paraphrast of Homer and Hesiod; but cf. Hilgard, , p. lxxxix.Google Scholar
4 Cf. the apparatus at Try. ii, 217. 3 = cap. 2. 6.
5 The authenticity of the section is furdier disproved by the non-classical example
1 The compiler of the Violarium of ‘Eudocia’.
2 The work is also contained on ff. 182–6 of Atheniensis 1083 (s. xvi), which I have not investigated.