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ΑΝΑΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ And Some Cognate Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. J. Allan
D. J. Allan
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Presumably it is common ground that this verb has in addition to the basic sense ‘recognize’ the derivative sense ‘oread’, and that one must judge from the context whether reading to one or more other people, or private reading, is meant. The reading of the text of a law to a jury at an orator's request is marked by the circumstances themselves as public reading; so is the reading of the Athenian decree to the Mitylenaeans in Thucydides. When Theaetetus answers in the affirmative the question whether he has read the book of Protagoras which contains the statement that man is the measure of all things (); or when it is asked ‘Why is it that some people, if they begin to read, are overcome by sleep even against their will, whereas others wishing to be overcome by sleep are kept awake by taking up a book?’ Evidently what is intended is reading in the privacy of one's own room. When Socrates in the Phaedo says that he heard a person reading from Anaxagoras and eagerly took the book home to read (97 B-98 B), both senses are found within a few pages.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , May 1980 , pp. 244 - 251
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1980

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References

1 The history of this, and semantically related verbs, is discussed by P. Chantraine, ‘Les verbes grecs signifiant “lire” ()’, . Grégoire, Mélanges H. 2 = Annuaire de l'Inst. de Philol. et d'Hist. Orientates et Slaves 10 (1950), 115–26: pp. 115–121 are on : on public and private reading see 120.Google Scholar

2 Thuc. 3.49.4.

3 Plato, Tht. 152 A.

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16 is a generally received emen dation of the MS. reading .

17 A possible parallel for works aimed at public reading, in the time of Cleanthes, may be provided by an anecdote in D. L. 7.163: where is practically equivalent to (cf. R. D. Hicks's transl., in the Loeb. edn., ‘uttered the verse’). Whether the passage in the Poetics in which Aristotle takes note of the reading of tragedies (, 1450b 18 f.; cf. 1462a 12 ) has reference to public or to private reading, I shall not here try to decide. Either makes good sense in the context.

18 This is so-called owing to its appearance in a single manuscript of the fourteenth century, cod. Marc. 257, where it is preceded by an anonymous commentary on the de Interpretatione.

19 Bibl., cod. 190.

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21 The text is partly obliterated here, but the Latin Life has, ‘intellectus abest, surdum est auditorium’ (printed e.g. in Rose, V., Aristotelis Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1886), p. 443; Düring, op. cit. (n.20), p. 152).Google Scholar

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23 Düring, ibid., refers to Top. 1.14, 105b 12-18, where Aristotle advises the trainee in dialectic to make his own selection from written .

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26 Tht. 143 C.

27 Cic. Att. 1.12.4, Cornelius Nepos, Att. 13.3, Plut. Crass. 2.7,544a; LSJ also cite Philodemus, Rb. i. 199 Sudhaus, where, however, the word is partly restored.

28 Cited by Chantraine, loc. cit (n.l), p. 120: this instance is not given by LSJ.

29 In the editions of Walzer and Ross.

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35 Or ‘have been’, if repre sents an imperfect indicative.

36 Ad loc, in de An. 145.21–4.

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38 Nonius Marcellus 394.26-8 ed. Lindsay (note on the distinction between contendere and intendere).

39 SHA, Saloninus Gallienus 2.2, ii. 97. 20-2 Hohl: this text too may be found in the Testimonia to the Protr. printed in Rose, Walzer and Ross. What was it that he said? Possibly de mortuis nil nisi bonum, of which I have been unable to ascertain the origin. The sentiment is ascribed to Chilon (D.L. 1.70).

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43 Ibid.; he also gives grounds for following manuscripts which have leges, but this is unimportant here (Rose and Ross (in his edition of Aristotle's fragments) read legis)

44 In the Oxford translation of Aristotle (see n.6) vol. xii (1952), p. 26.

45 Op. cit. (n.40), p. 23, reading legas.

46 Ibid,, p. 27.

47 Or having a draft read over to him while Sallustius listened, ad Q.Fr. 3.5.1; cf. also Tusc. 5.116 and B. M. W. Knox's comments thereon, ‘Silent reading in Antiquity’, GRBS 9 (1968), 427.

48 Donald Allan died before he could put this article into its final form. The editors would like to thank Dr. H. J. Blumenthal for doing so.