Sunday, April 30, 2023
An Emendation by Nietzsche
W.A. Oldfather, review of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philologica, Bd. III, edd. O. Crusius and W. Nestle (Leipzig: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1913), in
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 12 (1913) 652-666 (at 655):
First, here is Nietzsche's footnote (from "Die διάδοχοι der Philosophen," pp. 305-323):
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Almost certainly correct is the restoration of a passage in the commentary of Probus on Vergil's Aen. VI, 31, which is so corrupt that it has been uniformly athetized by the Editors (p. 3092).This is a rare slip on Oldfather's part. The commentary is on Vergil, Ecl. 6.31, not Vergil, Aen. 6.31.
First, here is Nietzsche's footnote (from "Die διάδοχοι der Philosophen," pp. 305-323):
Hiernach ist eine sehr verdorbene Stelle der Scholien des Probus zum Virgil VI, 31 zu corrigiren. Anaxagoras Abderites fuit, Democrito popularis et discipulus, quamquam alii Dionysium Cyzicenum (cod. Par. N. 8209 Dionysium Smyrneum) magistrum eius affirment. Hergestellt: Anaxarchus Abderites fuit quamquam alii Diogenem Cyrenaeum vel Smyrnaeum magistrum eius affirment. Rhein. Mus. IV. 144.Second, here is the passage from "Probus," in Hermann Hagen, ed., Appendix Serviana = Servii Grammatici Qui Feruntur in Vergilii Carmina Commentarii, III.2 (Leipig: B.G. Teubner, 1902), p. 335, lines 9-11 (from Probi Qui Dicitur Commentarius in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica, pp. 321-390; click once or twice to enlarge):
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