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On the Text of the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. Postgate.
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool.

Extract

The germ of the following paper is as old as the previous century, when in the year 1898 my attention was accidentally drawn to one of the passages discussed below. But progress was impossible until the facts of the MS.tradition of the Stromateis were properly presented–a service for which we are indebted to the excellent edition of Clement by Dr. O. Stählin (Leipzig 1906–1909).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1914

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References

1 That is the true and full record of the testi-mony of L. Laurentianus V. 3.

2 Encyclopaedia Britannica (Ed. II ), “Textual Criticism,” vol. 26, p. 711, col. 2; Classical Review,16 (1902), p. 309a.

3 E.g. in Encyclopaedia Britannica I.e., p. 713, col. 1, “since different kinds of scribes are prone to different kinds of errors we must ever bear in mind the particular failings of the scribes respon-sible for the transmission of our text as these failings are revealed in the apparatus criticus.”

1 Encyclopaedia Britannica I.e., p. 712, col. 2. The matter is dealt with at length in the Classical Review, 16(1902), p 308. Transposition of words also is sometimes due to “arrested loss.” VI. 65. 6 γεωμεΤρεî Καí γΕωρρΕî(L, corr. St.) is an in-teresting case.

1 The notes on pp. 446, 447, 449, 489 afford other examples.

1 It is worth noting that some of the inferior MSS. of Persius give before or after v. 9 a line designed to get rid of the “incompatibility,” “coruos quis olim concauum (or Caesarem) salu-tare,” which bears a strong family resemblancet o Prof. Diels's first correction here.

1 Καí αΚωλΤως Stählin.

1 μή οΚ ήι ΤοΤο Professor H. Jackson, accepted by Stählin.

2 λέγει Stählin, Professor Jackson, J. Phil. 27.140

3 ΚνπΤάονΤα Dindorf.

4 ούδ ήιProfessor Jackson. 1 The quotation stops abruptly in Clement, so I note that there are 55 letters from TOOTO to 2 Or, better perhaps, 06 vaaav (33 letters).

1 διεΚπερν Stob. Plut., δε έΚπερνL.

1 The doctrine of the perfectness of the sphere is of course pre-Stoic. In the Timaeus of Plato it appears in more than one application; 33 B (on the Κύσμπς) and 73 C sqq. (of the brain and head) are not without their instructiveness for parts of the present inquiry.

1 Stoic influence, it may be added, has recently been traced in the cosmogony of Ovid Met. i. by Mr. F. E. Robbins, Classical Philology, 8. (1913)pp. 401 sqq.