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SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY

PREFACE

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For the Greek Anthology proper, use has chiefly been made of [] Anthologia Graeca sive Poetarum Graecorum lusus ex recensione Brunckii; indices et commentarium adiecit Friedericus Iacobs (Leipzig, 1794-1814: four volumes of text and nine of indices, prolegomena, commentary, and appendices), and Anthologia Graeca ad fidem codicis olim Palatini nunc Parisini ex apographo Gothano edita; curavit epigrammata in Codice Palatino desiderata et annotationem criticam adiecit Fridericus Jacobs (Leipzig, 1813-1817: two volumes of text and two of critical notes). [] The epigrams recovered from inscriptions have been collected and edited by G. Kaibel in his Epigrammata Graeca ex labidibus conlecta (Berlin, 1878). []

In the notes, I have not thought it necessary to acknowledge, except here once for all, my continual obligations to that superb monument of scholarship, the commentary of Jacobs; but where a note or a reading is borrowed from a later critic, his name is mentioned. All important deviations from the received text of the Anthology are noted, and referred to their author in each case; but, as this is not a critical edition, the received text, when retained, is as a rule printed without comment where it differs from that of the MSS. or other originals.

The references in the notes to Bergk's Lyrici Graeci give the pages of the fourth edition. Epigrams from the Anthology are quoted by the sections of the Palatine collection (Anth. Pal.) and the appendices to it (sections xiii-xv). After these appendices follows in modern editions a collection (App. Plan.) of all the epigrams in the Planudean Anthology which are not found in the Palatine MS.

I have to thank Mr. P. E. Matheson, Fellow of New College, for his kindness in looking over the proofsheets of this book.

 

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