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Notes on Two Passages in Polybius, Book I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. M. Moore
J. M. Moore
Affiliation:
Radley College, Abingdon
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1. 1.5.3. The unanimous manuscript reading for this passage is The idea of an looking for an seems alien to Greek thought, and the expression is not derived from any traceable proverb. A small correction produces the reading which restores sense, and produces a meaning which is much more in line with the requirements of the passage. The corruption may well have arisen from the penchant which scribes had for making minor alterations to restore what they conceived to be the required grammar of the immediate context.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , December 1966 , pp. 248
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1966

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References

page 248 note 1 A passage discussing this same idea may be found in Plato, Hippias Major 293 a.

page 248 note 2 The sigla used are those of Büttner-Wobst, to which are added Z (Vaticanus Gr. 1005) and J (Vindobonensis Phil. Gr. 59), which my study of the manuscript tradition has shown to be independent evidence for the establishment of the text; his B is useless, since it is derived from Moore, A. Cf., The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 10–45.Google Scholar