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The Scholia on Strabo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Aubrey Diller
Aubrey Diller*
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Strabo's Geography was not well known in ancient and medieval times. It was never the subject of literary or scientific study. There was no need to write commentaries on it as on the poets, orators, and philosophers. Nevertheless the medieval manuscripts of Strabo do contain meagre scholia, and for one reason or another some of them are valuable. Moreover as a whole they throw light on the history of Greek scholarship in an important but obscure period. It seems desirable therefore to edit them entire, to examine their relationships, and point out their significance.

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Traditio , Volume 10 , 1954 , pp. 29 - 50
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1 Some of the scholia are included in the critical apparatus on Strabo by Kramer, G., Strabonis Geographica (3 vols., 1844-52).Google Scholar

2 Kramer, preface; Roellig, E., ‘De codd. Strabonianis qui libros I-IX continent,’ Diss. Philol. Halenses 7 (1886) 275–396; Allen, T. W., ‘MSS of Strabo at Paris and Eton,’ Class. Quart. 9 (1915) 15-26, 86-96; Diller, A., ‘Codex B of Strabo,’ Am. Journ. of Philol, 56 (1935) 97-102; Sbordone, F., ‘Eliminatio codicum e recensio dei libri VIII e IX della Geografia di Strabone,’ Rendiconti dell’ Accad. di Napoli 24-25 (1951) 289-331. I have changed two of Kramer's sigla in order to provide sigla for primary MSS he did not use. Kramer's B is Laur. 28-5, a late and worthless MS. Kramer's z is Laur. 28-15, my n2.Google Scholar

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17 Also in T of Plato; see the plate in Waddell (supra, note 15) cxxii. Also in Laur. 70-3 of Herodotus, which also has the 33 lines characteristic of the Paris Plato group; see Wattenbach and von Velsen, Exempla codicum graecorum (1878) pl. 31.Google Scholar

18 Gardthausen, V., Griech. Palaeographie (2 1913) II 410-5.Google Scholar

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23 There are two current methods of citing Strabo — by the pages of Casaubon's second edition of 1620 and by the chapters and sections introduced progressively by Bréquigny (1763), Tzschucke (1798), and Kramer (1852). The latter method is cumbersome and not precise (the sections are often too long). The former may be improved by using the letters ABCD provided in the edition of 1620 to divide the pages into four parts. Muller has used these letters in his edition of Chr. (supra, note 12), and a similar method is of course well known for Plato and other texts.Google Scholar

24 Dr. Ernest Honigmann, of Brussels, suggested this identification to me by letter in 1939. ‘Le γ, comme le ǧ turc, n'est pas prononcé; cf. Anna Comnène, Alexiade, éd. Reifferscheid, t. II p. 287.32, Tvϱάγɩov = Tvϱάɩov, aujourd'hui Turaǧon.’Google Scholar

25 Sch. Str. 124A, 259C, 277C, 306B, 578C, etc. Aly, W. in La Parola del Passato 5 (1950) 229f. describes our scholia as ‘Reste eines Kommentars … im 6. Jh. entstanden.’ There is nothing to indicate a more elaborate commentary than we have now, and the scholia just cited and many others cannot be as early as the sixth century.Google Scholar

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39 Phlegon's Olympiades in Bibl. 97 and Palat. 398 fol. 234v-236r (FGrHist 257 T 3 + F 12 and F 1), a significant case, as the work was rare by the ninth century. It is noteworthy that Euagrius, the last author to cite Phlegon before Photius, cites Strabo, Phlegon, Diodorus, Arrian all together (Euagr. Hist. Eccles. I 20, FGrHist 156 F 174, 257 F 24, supra on sch. Str. 270C). It looks as if the library to which Photius had access was already taking shape in the sixth century. Stephanus Byzantius cites Strabo, Phlegon, Arrian, but not Diodorus.Google Scholar

40 Ziegler (supra note 31) 677.Google Scholar

41 See sch. Str. 14D, 159B, 161C, 198B, 270C, 272C, 308C, 537D, 651D, 689A, 780A, 812A.Google Scholar

42 See on sch. Str. 270C, 746A.Google Scholar

43 See on sch. Str. 818D. Arrian is cited by name in Chr. 11.22 (Anab. IV 15.4, VII 13.2), and there are other traces in Chr. 11.28 (III 29.2), 12.49 (VII 18.5, V 24.5), 13.24 (I 29.3), 14.32 (I 23.8). Arrian (Anab. III 16.8) is quoted in a scholium on Proclus Comm. in Plat. Tim. I p. 468 Diehl, which surely came from cod. Paris. Suppl. 921, a member of the Paris Plato group.Google Scholar

44 Bidez, J., Philostorgius Kirchengeschichte (1913) 4–150.Google Scholar

45 Compare Suda Στϱάτων (sic) Άμασεὺς φɩλόσοφος· γέγονεν έπὶ Τιβεϱίου Καίσαϱος, ϰαὶ ἒγϱαψε γεωγϱαφίαν ἐν βιβλίοις ﻍ (sic). This notice may well come from the Photian Paris Plato milieu; for Hesychius’ Onomatologus was reworked in the middle of the ninth century and was known to Photius and in the Paris Plato. Cf. Chr. 1.20 (above) and see Ziegler (supra note 31) 715 and Schultz, H. in RE 16 (1913) 1323f. Google Scholar

46 The discussion of the problem of the Slavs in Greece has been voluminous and still continues vigorously. I shall cite only one recent treatment, where the sources are given at length: Bon, A., Le Péloponnèse byzantin (1951) 27–70. As a curiosity I may mention the treatment by Dodwell, H., ‘Dissertatio de Strabonis epitomatore et aetate qua vixerit,’ in John Hudson, Geographiae veteris scriptores graeci minores II (1703) 168-91.Google Scholar

47 Müller (supra note 12) II 494-509; Diller, Tradition (supra note 6) 3, 11, 15. The anonymous Hypotyposis was long edited erroneously as a second book of Agathemerus’ Hypotyposis. Google Scholar

48 Lucas Holsten in 1628 (Diller, Tradition, 54 z43).Google Scholar

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