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Aeneas Tacticvs and Stichometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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These notes are the result of some work done a year or two ago on the Medicean MS. of Aeneas Tacticus1 (Cod. Mediceus Laurentianus, Plut. lv. 4, Saec. xi.) in preparation for an edition of that unduly neglected author which I hope will soon see the light. I should not have thought it worth while to publish them separately were it not for two papers, at once laborious and brilliant, read by Mr. A. C. Clark to the Oxford Philological Society on the text of Cicero′s speeches, in May, 1912, and February, 1913. The extreme plausibility with which the reader then explained numberless corruptions, transpositions, etc., in the text of Cicero, by reconstructing the length of line and pagination of the MSS. in their several degrees of descent, led me to think that it might be of some interest to publish the results at which I arrived by working on the same lines with a Greek author. In my case the problem has been a far simpler one, as I only had one MS. to deal with; but as I came to my own conclusions quite independently, before I knew that the method was being applied elsewhere, I give them for what they are worth, only too glad to find myself in such good company.
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page 256 note 1 The best text of Aeneas to use for reference is Teubner"s latest edition (R. Schiine, 1911), which adheres far more closely to the text of M than the earlier edition by Hug, 1874.
page 256 note 2 The other MSS. of Aeneas are all late apographs of M.
page 257 note 1 
Rustow and Kochly (Leipzig, 1853).
page 257 note 2 
ldas ex Hdt. Casaubon.
page 257 note 3 
was my own suggestion; but I am inclined to accept Hermann Schone′s conjee-ture 
(in App. Crit. of R. Schbne′s edition of Aeneas Tacticus, Teubner, Lips., 1911, I p. 90), for the reason stated above. Palaeographically, both are equally acceptable.
page 258 note 1 I had at first written 
But though this division of 
after the consonant might be permissible in an uncial MS. (see Wattenbach, Ankitung zur Griech. Palaeograp Leipzig, 1895, p. 15), in a minuscule hand it would, I believe, be unexampled (id. ib., p. 58). In either case the line is of the same length.
page 258 note 2 The other corruption of 
into the meaningless 
is not hard to explain, as 
is a rare word. The stages were probably (i) 
to which was added in the margin the conjecture 
. (iii) This afterwards crept into the text as an addition to 
instead of an alternative, giving the reading of M as we have it now.
page 258 note 3 The Archetype of Thucydides has, I believe, been reconstructed on an average of 35 letters to the line: that of Demosthenes on an average of in, from 37 to 33.
page 259 note 1 
Rustow and Kochly.
page 260 note 1 
RK.
page 260 note 2 
Cas.
page 261 note 1 A Christian Bishop of the 3rd century A.D. who took excerpts from Aeneas into his Kεσsigma;o-rol, miscellaneous note-book containing scraps of information on every possible subject.
page 261 note 2 Read 
(Cas.).
page 261 note 3 3 It probably arose from the fact that the same phrase occurs elsewhere in the treatise (cf. cc. xxvii. 1, xxxix. 6, where it makes good sense).
page 263 note 1 Cf. iii. 6., xiii. 4 (
), xxiv. 16, xxviii. 2 ( 
).
page 263 note 2 With abbreviation for ov at end of line.