A Selection from the Remains of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus; with Glossary and Prolegomena

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...Gaisf., Jac, Dahl, Schaef., Meineke, and Boisson., reads ixdvpS, with the following note: "mihi in 9vpu jungenda videntur, et significare, 'tota mente: ex quo limine etiam nunc tota mente affixa pendeo.' Supplendum Ik relinquitur in ag irt nal vvv--8s8ip, ai. Addita prsepositio in Aristoph. Equit. v. 1360, omittitur in ejusdem Pluto v. 312. 'ek Qujiov-dira KapSiag-Ik /vrig sic adhibentur," &e. Seven MSS., sec. Gaisf., exhibit Iv dv/itf, a lection deserving of notice (cf. iv Qvp.# Ts Xiytig. Id. xxix. 36), but not of preference. If tK dv/tif be the correct reading, why did not the poet write iicSicifiai 9vpji, in the natural order? 62. i-wi$QhX, oija. So Meineke and Wuest., upon the authority of all the MSS. and early edd., instead of iiritp9uaBoiaa, which, as Warton announces it, bears its own condemnation, "Nostra lectio, quae prodiit ex ingenio Stephano, magis Dorica." The word occurs again, with the same unanimity of MSS. and early edd., in Id. TO. 126. cf. V. R. Id. xv. 3. Eustathius also so quotes it on Homer. Od. I. p. 1392, 42 r= 22, 9. To napa QioicpWtp 'J.iri(p6vZ, tiv, avri Tow iiMTTviiv yorirtuTiKwg. and also on Od. iv. p. 1482, 43=: 169, 16. lb. iraaaiD. "Vulgo legitur doTsa waaam, sicuti v. 21, (so all the MSS. and early edd.). sed hie non bene congruit Trdaaio, quum in anteeedd. non sit iiriirao-ae, sed inr6p.a%ov (v. 59) oppositum. Jam b. Reizium (vid. eel. Eichstaedtii Qu. philol. Spec. p. 60) et ill. Sehneiderum (in Bibl. philol. i, p. 126), offendebat vulgaris lectio. Equidem non dubitavi, Ahlwardti emendationem fidairw, analogia et verborum oppositionis lege firmatam atque ipsi Vossio, recentiorum coniecturis alias parum faventi, insigniter probatam (v. eius Commentar. in Virg. Eel. p. 428, ad...