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Notes and Emendations on the Tragedies of Seneca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. E. Stuart
C. E. Stuart
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge.
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No one probably feels tempted to deny that our best authority for the text of the Tragedies is the Etruscus, E (Laurentianus 37.13), but the authority relatively due to the interpolated tradition A is still a matter of dispute. Leo indeed (vol. i. p. 4) professed to deny all authority to the evidence of A, even where E is manifestly corrupt. But we should be justified in doing this only if the interpolator of A had based his edition on the text of E, and the text of E had suffered no corruptions subsequent to the making of the A edition. That this is so there is not the least reason to suppose. Peiper therefore was right in requiring for his apparatus criticus an account of the pure A text, though neither he nor Richter took the trouble to search out the oldest and best MSS of the A tradition out of the three hundred or more available.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1911 , pp. 32 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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References

1 Sir Baker, Samuel W..:Wild Beasts and their Ways (1890), vol. 2., p. 202.Google Scholar