Friday, May 26, 2023
Brink Blinks?
C.O. Brink, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson, and Housman (1986; rpt. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. Ltd, 2010), pp. 44-45 (on Richard Bentley's Epistola ad Joannem Millium):
For εἰς τὴν κοιὴν διάλεκτον read εἰς τὴν κοινὴν διάλεκτον.
Apparently the error was introduced in the reprint, published after Brink's death. Eric Thomson sent me this image of the original:
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He concludes by restoring some Orphic oracles which Malelas had avowedly spoilt by making their verse into prose, 'εἰς τὴν κοιὴν διάλεκτον' (p. 248), helped in the task by an (unpublished) Oxford MS, in which he had noticed 'oracles and theologies of Greek Philosophers', Χρησμοὶ καὶ Θεολογίαι Ἑλλήνων φιλοσόφων.Image of the reprint:
Apparently the error was introduced in the reprint, published after Brink's death. Eric Thomson sent me this image of the original:
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