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The annotations of M. Valerivs Probvs (II)*

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H. D. Jocelyn
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When Mommsen saw foll. 28r line i–29r line 6 of cod. Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. 7530, an eighth-century grammatical miscellany from Monte Cassino, he realised immediately the importance of their contents. He wrote to Bergk about his discovery on 2 November 1844 and Bergk published the material early the next year as being an epitome of a treatise on signs applied to literary texts by Probus and earlier Latin grammarians. There had long been known Diogenes Laertius' account of the χῖ and other signs placed in the margins of texts of Plato's dialogues, Hephaestion's account of the colometrical παράγραɸος, κορωνίς, διπλ⋯ and ⋯στερίσκος placed in texts of lyric and dramatic poetry, the chapter de notis sententiarum in Isidore's Origines, the names of various treatises περ⋯ σημείων mentioned in the Suda, the references to σημεῖα in Eustathius' commentary on Homer' and in the marginal scholia to Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes in Byzantine manuscripts, Cicero's allusions to the ⋯βελός and the διπλ⋯ scattered reports of the signs with which Origen equipped Greek versions of the Old Testament and Jerome's adaptation of Origen's system, and Cassiodorus' account of his own method of noting orthodox and heterodox opinions in ecclesiastical writings.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , May 1985 , pp. 149 - 161
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64 Cf. schol. Hes. Op. 207–12, 276b, 649a, Theog. 117, 573, Pind. Ol. 2.48 f., 10.78 f., Pyth. 3.18a, 4.305, 318a, 431, 507, Aesch. Prom. 9, Sept. 79, Choeph. 534, Soph. Ai. 962, Ant. 735, 741, 1176, Trach. 402, O.C. 25, 43, 237, 375, 1494, 1740, Phil. 201, 417, Eurip. Hec. 3, 4, 29, 323, Orest. 81, 599, Hipp. 93, 1192, Med. 33, 1346, Andr. 603, 873, 930, Rhes. 41, 239, 716, Aristoph. Av. 76, 107, 204, 302, 1309, 1372, Equ. 721, Lys. 499, 702, Nub. 518, 562, 766, 815, 925, 962, 1178, Pac. 775, 990, Plut. 3, 863, Ran. 35, 153, 557, 575, Thesm. 924, Vesp. 1172, 1282, 1480. Scholia to Aristophanes were printed in 1498 (Venice), to Pindar in 1515 (Rome), to Sophocles in 1518 (Rome), to Euripides in 1534 (Venice), to Aeschylus in 1552 (Venice). Colometrical remarks by Triclinius frequently got mixed with ancient material in these editions. Scholia to Hesiod were printed in 1537 (Venice). The Homeric scholia printed in 1517 (Rome) were those long attributed to ‘Didymus’; on the history of knowledge of more erudite sets see Villoison, op. cit. (n. 44), proleg. xiv n. 1. There was also knowledge of the use of σημεῖα on Demosthenes (Schol. ix 587.25–6 Dindorf; ‘Ulpian’ was printed in 1503 [at Venice]) and on Hippocrates (Galen, xv 110 [= CMG v 9, 1, 58], xvi 800 [= CMG v 9, 2, 154]; the commentaries on Hipopocrates were printed in 1525 [at Venice]), perhaps also of their use on Thucydides (schol. 3.84.1; ‘σχόλια παλαιά’ were printed in 1526 [at Florence]).

65 Att. 8.2.4, Fam. 9.10.1. Cf. Pis. 73, Fam. 3.11.5, 9.16.4.

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68 Inst. 1.1.8, 1.9.3. See also Inst. 1 praef. 9, 1.26.

69 Schoppe found in his ‘schedae Fuldanae’ et hinc…parcas’ in Probi adpuncti sunt. See his De arte critica commentariolus (Nuremberg, 1597)Google Scholar, sig. B7. Daniel's reading, et ‘hinc…parcas’ adiuncta sunt, held sway until Bergk made his study of cod. Kassel, Staatsbibl. MS. Poet. fol. 6 (‘Servii Casselani part. III’, Progr. Marburg. 1844, 4).

70 See above, n. 35.

71 See above, n. 44.

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80 Various signs are visible in the margins of a fifty-century Virgil (cod. Florence, Bibl. Med. Laur. xxxix.1 = CLA iii 296; see Ribbeck, O., Prolegomena critica ad P. Vergili Maronis opera maiora [Leipzig, 1866], 158–63Google Scholar), a fifth-to sixth-century Gaius (P. Soc. Ital. 1182 = CLA iii 292), a fifth- to sixth-century Juvenal (JEA 21 [1935], 199–207Google Scholar = CLA Suppl. 1710) and a sixth-century Hilarius (cod. Vienna, Oest. Nationalbibl. MS 2160 = CLA x 1507). Where medieval and renaissance manuscripts are concerned, see on cod. Munich, Bayer. Staatsbibl. Lat. 816a (Lucretius: fifteenth century Italy) Bergk, T., NJbb 83 (1861), 317–20Google Scholar (= Kl. phil. Schr. i [n. 57], 248–52), Sauppe, H., Progr. Göttingen (1864), 11–14Google Scholar (= Ausgewählte Schriften [Berlin, 1896], 433–6)Google Scholar; on cod. Vatican City, Bibl. Apost. Pal. lat. 1615 (Plautus: eleventh century South Germany), Schoell, F., T. Macci Plauti Truculentus (Leipzig, 1881), xxxv–viGoogle Scholar, W. M. Lindsay, op. cit. (n. 4), 82–3. M. D. Reeve informs me, however, that Sauppe was wrong to accept the presence of the χῖ in C.L.M. 816a; what Bergk saw belongs to the annotator's abbreviation of ὡραῖον. On various codices preserving Jerome's signs see Rahlfs, A., ‘Der Text des Septuaginta-Psalters’, Septuaginta-Studien, 2. Heft (Göttingen, 1907), 124–34Google Scholar.

81 The chapter also occurs in the Cava miscellany (n. 77), foll. 247v–248v. For its separate transmission see Traube, L., ‘Textgeschichte der Regula S. Benedicti’, Abh. d. Hist. Cl. d. Kön. Bayer. Ak. d. Wiss. 21, 3(1898), 725Google Scholar (= ed. 2, Abh. d. Kön. Bayer. Ak. d. Wiss., Philos.-philol. und hist. Kl. 25, 2 [1910], 121Google Scholar).

82 iv 581.21. The same title is attributed elsewhere in the Suda to a Diogenes or Diogenianus (ii 102.32).

83 Cf. J. Aistermann, op. cit. (n. 4), 10 (arguing that the source of the Paris essay was composed before Probus edited Terence), Brugnoli, G., Atti Acc. Naz. Lincei 8, 6 (1955), 1–16Google Scholar (= Studi Suetoniani [Lecce, 1968], 156–8Google Scholar), N. Scivoletto, op. cit. (n. 4), 114 n. 23 (= Stud. 193 n. 33), G. Pascucci, op. cit. (n. 4), 27 (drawing attention to the conflict between the list of authors given by the Paris essay and the picture of Probus' interests painted in Suetonius' De grammaticis).

84 Cf. A. Reifferscheid, op. cit. (n. 57), 419–20 (arguing that the Περ⋯ τ⋯ν ⋯ν τοῖς βιβλίοις σημείων was part of the De uiris illustribus and included material on shorthand and cryptography), 0. Ribbeck, op. cit. (n. 80), 150, J. Steup, op. cit. (n. 9), 52–3, Leo, F., Plaut. Forsch. 2 (n. 3), 32Google Scholar, A. Macé, op. cit. (n. 12), 265–7, Traube, L., ‘Die Geschichte der tironischen Noten bei Suetonius und Isidorus’, Arch. f Stenogr. 53 (1901), 191–208Google Scholar (= Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen iii [Munich, 1920], 254–73Google Scholar), P. Weber, op. cit. (n. 77), 3–24, Gudeman, A., Grundriss (n. 43), 105 n. 1Google Scholar, ‘Krit. Zeich.’ (n. 52), 1917, Wessner, P., Bursians Jahresber. 188 (1921), 80Google Scholar, Funaioli, G., RE ii 4.1 (1931), 630–2Google Scholar, s.v. ‘Suetonius’, Hanslik, R., RE ii 8.1 (1955), 198Google Scholar, s.v. ‘Valerius Probus’, Grisart, A., Helikon 2 (1962), 390Google Scholar n. 49, R. W. Müllner, op. cit. (n. 41), 62, L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, op. cit. (n. 4), 20, C. O. Brink, op. cit. (n. 4), 36–7, Questa, C., RFIC 102 (1974), 186Google Scholar, J. E. G. Zetzel, op. cit. (n. 4), 15. Fontaine, J., Isidore de Séville et la culture classique dans l'Espagne wisigothique i (Paris, 1959), 74–80Google Scholar, does not name Suetonius. Hillgarth, J. N., ‘The Position of Isidorian Studies: a critical review of the literature since 1935’, Isidoriana (Leόn, 1961), 33 and n. 62Google Scholar, expresses himself obscurely.

85 Cf. J. Fontaine, op. cit. (n. 84), 192–4, Holtz, L., RPh 45 (1971), 81–3Google Scholar.

86 Cf. Donat. Gramm. Lat. iv 372.15–23, Cledonius, , Gramm. Lat. v 34.1–9Google Scholar, Diomedes, , Gramm. Lat. i 437.10–439.9Google Scholar.

87 In 1931 T. W. Allen counted five papyrus texts of Homer out of a hundred with signs (Homeri Ilias i [n. 52], 198). In 1977 P. Oxy. 3224 with its signs (The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. xlv, 51–2) stood against 53 other ancient copies of the same set of Hesiod's works lacking signs. Lowe remarks, E. A. (Codices Latini Antiquiores. Suppl. [Oxford, 1971], 13 [on no. 1710])Google Scholar, on the small number of signs to be found in Latin manuscripts. On the tendency of Origen's signs to disappear in the course of the Greek biblical tradition see B. M. Metzger, loc. cit. (n. 79).

88 At 1.5.4 positurae and notae appear as two of the thirty divisions of grammar.

89 At Adu. Hieron. 2.40 Rufinus refers to the military theta (~ Isidore, Orig. 1.24) in a discussion of Origen's use of critical signs; this could indicate that the treatise used by Isidore was known to Rufinus.

90 It is badly muddled. What Epiphanius (n. 66) and the essay published by Serruys (n. 77) call the ὑπολημνίσκος, Isidore calls an antigraphus cum puncto (Orig. 1.21.6).

91 The use of the same text of Virgil, Aen. 10.88–90, to illustrate the auersa obelismene (referring back to 10.25–9, 55–62) puts this beyond doubt.

92 Probus is treated throughout as a recent rather than an ‘ancient’ grammarian. See further below, nn. 133, 140.

93 EXPLICIT is normal in cod. Paris, B.N. lat. 7530 and other South Italian manuscripts, but for FINIT see fol. 145r. FINIT is said to be characteristic of Irish and Spanish manuscripts (Lindsay, W. M., Palaeografia Latina ii [Oxford, 1923], 5–10, iv [1925], 83–4Google Scholar; but see Lowe, E. A., CQ 22 [1928], 60Google Scholar [= Palaeographical Papers 1907–1965 i (Oxford, 1972), 272]Google Scholar, Oliver, R. P., TAPhA 82 [1951], 239 n. 8)Google Scholar.

94 At NJbb 83 (1861), 320 n. 10Google Scholar (= Kl. phil. Schr. i 252 n. 10) he declared the notae simplices to be later than the other twenty-one but did not go into the matter in any detail.

95 On the first list see below. Where the second list is concerned, the lack of correspondence in the symbols ∸/H※ and the repetition of ∸ later in the list strongly suggest corruption. graeca metafrasis et bis dictum et repugnans. Φ P graeca metafrasis et repugnans ought to have some correspondence with ⋗ bis dictum and with ∸ repugnans. It is hard to believe that M denoted both malum metrum and aprepes (see below, n. 156).

96 Cf. Holtz, L., Stud. Med. 16 (1975), 114 n. 75Google Scholar.

97 Weber, op. cit. (n. 77), 19–24, discerned three sections, one concerned with the signs used by Aristarchus and Probus, one concerned with the punctuation of lyric and scenic texts, and one concerned with the ‘uerborum sensus’ (p. 21) or ‘iudicium’ (p. 22). Only the first, in his view, went back to Suetonius.

98 Nine signs are credited to Aristarchus in our sources. Most modern accounts reduce the number to six. See Villoison, op. cit. (n. 44), Proleg. xii–xxii, Sengebusch, M., ‘Homerica dissertatio prior’ in Dindorf, W., Homeri Ilias 4 (Leipzig, 1861), 25–7Google Scholar, Ludwich, op. cit. (n. 25), 1, 19–22, Susemihl, F., Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit i (Leipzig, 1891), 454 n. 105Google Scholar, Cohen, L., RE 2.1 (1895), 865–7Google Scholar, s.v. ‘Aristarchos’, Allen, , Homeri Ilias i (n. 52), 197–9Google Scholar, Davison, J. A., ‘The Transmission of the Text’, in Wace, A. J. B. and Stubbings, F. H., A Companion to Homer (London, 1962), 215–33 (224)Google Scholar, Pfeiffer, op. cit. (n. 25), 218, Fraser, P. M., Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford, 1972), i, 464, ii, 672 n. 164Google Scholar.

99 This is the term used in the second list in cod. Venice, Bibl. Marc. gr. 483 and the first list in cod. Rome, Bibl. Naz. Vitt. Emm. gr. 6.

100 The absurdity of the Latin explanation – ponitur quotiens multi uersus inprobantur, ne per singulos obelentur (for series of ⋯βελοί see cod. Venice, Bibl. Marc. gr. 454, foll. 19r, 19v, 26v, 28r, 29v etc.) — and the elusiveness of that in the first Rome list — δηλοῖ δ⋯ κα⋯ αὐτ⋯ πολλ⋯ς ζητήσεις πρ⋯ς ταῖς προειρηέναις — suggest that somewhere in their ancestry lay a confession of ignorance. For Aristophanes' use of the sign (to indicate τ⋯ εὐτελές) see schol. Hom. Od. 18.282; for its use in an edition of Plato's Dialogues (πρ⋯ς τ⋯ν ⋯γωγ⋯ν τ⋯ς ɸιλοσοɸίας) Diog. Laert. 3.66. Lehrs, loc. cit. (n. 98), and others deny the κεραύνιον to Aristarchus.

101 Schol. A Hom. Il. 2.192, 203; 8.535–7. Cf. Ammonius ap. Nemesio ap. schol. A Hom. Il. 10.397–9 (verses repeating 10.310–12). For Aristophanes' use of the σίγμα and the ⋯ντίσιγμα see schol. Hom. Od. 5.247–8, schol. Aristoph. Ran. 153.

102 Cf. the function given to the ⋯ντίσιγμα περιεστιγμένον in Diogenes Laertius' account of an edition of Plato's Dialogues (πρ⋯ς τ⋯ς διττ⋯ς χρήσεις κα⋯ μεταθέσεις τ⋯ν γραɸ⋯ν).

103 See Wolf, op. cit. (n. 24), cclvii n. 43 (= ed. 2, 158 n. 43), Lehrs, op. cit. (n. 25), 362 (= ed. 3,340–1), G. G. Pluygers, ‘De carminum Homericorum ueterumque in ea scholiorum…retractanda editione’, Progr. Leyden, 1847, 3, Sengebusch, op. cit. (n. 97), 25. Ludwich, op. cit. (n. 25),i, 20, 22, 209, 318,ii, 139, Susemihl, loc. cit. (n. 98), Gudeman, ‘Krit. Zeich.’ (n. 52), 1923–4, Jachmann, G., Nachr. d. Ak. d. Wiss. in Göttingen, Phil-hist. Kl., 223 n. 1Google Scholar (= Textgeschichtliche Studien, ed. Gnilka, C. [Königstein/Ts, 1982], 882 n. 1)Google Scholar, Nickau, K., Untersuchungen zur textkritischen Methode des Zenodotos von Ephesos (Berlin-New York, 1977), 260–3Google Scholar.

104 One would talk more accurately of a common source to the source of the Paris list and Isidore on the one hand (see above), and the source of the Rome and Venice lists (see Lameere, op. cit. [n. 75], 42–3, 244–8) on the other.

105 What Isidore reports makes it clear that ÷ obelus adpunctus in the actual list is corrupt.

106 It is to be observed that Virgil's imitations of these two episodes come in the reverse order (books 7, 5).

107 See Meleager, , A.P. 12.257Google Scholar, Martial 10.1.1, P. London, B. M. Inv. 136 (A.D. i). , G. M. Stephen, Scriptorium 13 (1959), 3–14CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Lameere, op. cit. (n. 75), 190–224.

108 See [Plut.] Vit. Hom. 2.4, p. 25.22–5 Wilamowitz, Eustath. Comm. Horn. Il. 1 proem. p. 5.29–36 ed. Rom.

109 The statement also occurs in the Venice material (with ηὐδ⋯ντο instead of the correct ἥνωντο). For discussion see Diels, H., SB Berlin Ak. Wiss. (1894), 357 n. 3Google Scholar, Lameere, op. cit. (n. 75), 42–53, Erbse, , Gymnasium 69 (1962), 76Google Scholar, S. West, op. cit. (n. 52), 18–24.

110 See above, nn. 101–3.

111 The four signs come 13th-16th in the sequence of explanations given by the Paris codex (15th, 16th, 18th, 19th in the Isidorean sequence), and 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th in the preceding list.

112 One might suppose that at some stage the tradition lost a ⋜ auersa superne obelata.

113 Isidore makes clear the function that the source attributed to ⋝⋜ (…ponitur finita loco suo monade, significatque similem sequentem quoque esse). See also Bassus, Caesius, Gramm. Lat. vi 266.18–267.2Google Scholar.

114 Pp. 73.12–76.16.

115 On Heliodorus see Thiemann, C., ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟϥ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΕΙΟΣ ΚΩΛΟΜΕΤΡΙΑ (Diss. Halle, 1868), 21–43Google Scholar, Heliodori colometriae aristophaneae quantum superest una cum reliquis scholiis in Aristophanem metricis (Halle, 1869 [pp. 95–136 on the signs])Google Scholar, Hense, O., Heliodorische Untersuchungen (Leipzig, 1870), 35–72Google Scholar, RE 8.1 (1912), 28–40 (32), Consbruch, M., ‘De ueterum περ⋯ ποιήματος doctrina’ Bresl. Phil. Abhandl. v, 3 (Breslau, 1890), 52–67Google Scholar, Conradt, C., ‘Ueber die Semeiotik des Heliodoros’, NJbb 151 (1895), 273–7Google Scholar, W. G. Rutherford, op. cit. (n. 50), 88–92, White, J. W., The Verse of Greek Comedy (London, 1912), 384–421Google Scholar, Holwerda, D., ‘De Heliodori conunentario metric in Aristophanen’, Mnemosyne 4, 17 (1964), 113–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 4, 20 (1967), 247–72 (247–8, 254–6, 263), Pfeiffer, op. cit. (n. 25), 189. A somewhat simpler set of colometrical signs is described in the old scholia to Pindar (see Irigoin, op. cit. [n. 60], 49–52).

116 Despite the differing names for the sign, there are striking similarities between the Latin note ⋝ diple superne obelata ponitur ad condicionem locorum uel temporum uel personarum mutatam and Greek accounts of the scenic κορωνίς, most particularly with one in the Byzantine treatise on tragedy published from cod. Oxford, Bodl. Libr. Barocci 131, fol. 415, by Browning, R., ΓΕΡΑΣ. Studies presented to George Thomson (Prague, 1963), 67–81Google Scholar (§ 10) ⋯ δ⋯ κορων⋯ς μέρους ⋯στ⋯ σημεῖον, ὅταν οἱ ὑποκριτα⋯ ⋯ξελθόντες τ⋯ς σκην⋯ς μόνον τ⋯ν χορ⋯ν καταλείπουσι, κα⋯ ⋯πεισέλθωσι π⋯λιν, ⋯πόταν κα⋯ τ⋯ν τόπον ἔστιν ⋯λλ⋯ξαι, κα⋯ τόπον κα⋯ χορ⋯ν, κα⋯ ὅλον τ⋯ν μ⋯θον, ⋯ρχῇ δ⋯ ⋯πεισοδίον ἣ τελευτῇ). It may be that a desire to keep this sign distinct from the narrative coronis (ῖ coronis tantum in fine libri posita inuenitur caused a compiler of the Latin list to seek a new name. The use of obelus rather than * paragraphus may also evidence a desire to harmonise.

117 This point is made by Gudeman, ‘Krit. Zeich.’ (n. 52), 1926.

118 See Aesch. Eum. 234, 488, P. Oxy, 20.2257 (on the Αἴτνη and the Ἀχιλλέως ⋯ρασταί of Aeschylus), Soph. Ai. 815, Aristoph. Ach. 394, Equ. 722 (the δύο διπλαῖ mentioned in schol. ΕΓ3 have often been thought to indicate the change of scene), Ran. 180, Thesm. 277 (P.S.I. 1194 [A.D. ii] has a κορωνίς in the margin). For avoidance of scene change by the Latin dramatists see Jocelyn, H. D., The Tragedies of Ennius (Cambridge, 1967), 165Google Scholar, Entretiens Fond. Hardt 17 (1972), 57Google Scholar.

119 Isidore also puts these signs last, and in their company the coronis.

120 The term crux (see Asconius ap. Philarg. Virg. Buc. 3.105) may have been used by some Latin writers to denote the ἄλογος.

121 Schol. A Hom. Il. 16.613…⋯ν δ⋯ τῇ δευτέρᾳ ἄλογος αὐτῷ παρέκειτο (from Didymus). Lehrs, op. cit. (n. 25), 362 (= ed. 3, 341), changed ἄλογος here to ⋯βελός; cf. Ludwich, op. cit. (n. 25), 19 n. 20, 21 n. 23.

122 See P. Oxy. 15.1788, add. P. Oxy. 21, p. 142 (= ad Alcaeus F 3 b. 40c, p. 167 L–P).

123 Heliodorus ap. schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 1283e expresses bewilderment about τόποι ⋯πτ⋯ ἔχοντες στιγμ⋯ς κα⋯ ⋯λόγους.

124 Virg. Aen. 10.444.

125 Cassiodorus used a ‘chresimon’ to mark orthodox opinions in biblical commentaries which he read (see Inst. 1.9.3); an ‘achresimon’/‘achriston’ to mark the unorthodox (1.1.8, 1.9.3).

126 The material relates to historici as well as to poets. For the use of signs in the margins of prose writers see above, n. 64.

127 Cf. P. Oxy. 13 (1919). 1611.56, where marks the beginning of a quotation of Acusilaus in a grammatical treatise.

128 indicates ‘dogmata ualde necessaria’; see Corpus Christianorum ser. lat. XCVII (Turnhout, 1958), 2Google Scholar. Cf. above, n. 125.

129 Cf. the way in which the names of Crates and Aristarchus are added to the discussion of the περιεστιγμένη διπλ⋯ in the second Venice list (~ the second Rome list).

130 Not sensibly, since two distinct Greek uses had been described.

131 Not sensibly, since the use of the sign to mark disagreement with Zenodotos had been described. Cf. Gudeman, ‘Krit Zeich.’ (n. 52), 1920.

132 A discussion which we have shown, above, to muddle the Greek facts.

133 Probus is certainly made the last in a line of sign-using Latin grammarians, but neither the distance between him and the others nor that between him and the person responsible for the statements about Latin practice is made clear.

134 Bergk rightly recognised Ennius and Lucilius. L. Mueller was wrong to change historicorum to scaenicorum (NJbb 87 [1863], 176)Google Scholar; see Leo, , Geschichte der römischen Literatur i (Berlin, 1913), 359 n. 1Google Scholar. Aristarchus is now known to have written an ὑπόμνημα on Herodotus I (Amherst, P. 2.12 [London, 1901]Google Scholar), although that does not necessarily mean that he was also responsible for an ἔκδοσις of the text. Schol. Thuc. 3.84.1 shows that there existed annotated texts of the other classical Greek historian.

135 The presence of Aelius (Stilo) may be accepted, although Bergk preferred Laelius (Archelaus). All else is in doubt. For conjectures and discussion see Corte, F. Della, La filologia latina dalle origini a Varrone (Turin, 1937), 74 n. 3Google Scholar, Bonner, S. F., Hermes 88 (1960), 358–9Google Scholar, Timpanaro, S., Contributi di filologia e di storia della lingua latina (Rome, 1978), 84–5Google Scholar, Zetzel, op. cit. (n. 4), 15–17.

136 As Aistermann did, op. cit. (n. 4), 10.

137 As Bergk did, op. cit. (n. 57), 85 (= Kl. phil. Schr. i 585), Ribbeck, op. cit. (n. 80), 150, Leo, , Pl. Forsch. 2 (n. 4), 32 n. 2Google Scholar.

138 As Questa, C. does, RCCM 7 (1965), 925 n. 19Google Scholar, QUCC 1 (1966), 20Google Scholar, Due cantica delle Bacchides (Rome, 1967), 70 n. 19Google Scholar, RFIC 102 (1974), 179, 186, 188Google Scholar, in La critica testuale greco-latina oggi, metodi e problemi ed. Flores, E. (Rome, 1981), 160Google Scholar.

139 Gramm. 24.2–3. See part I.

140 Just when the auctores studied by Varro, Cicero and Caesar were replaced in the schools of the capital is not at all clear from our evidence. It was no ordinary school in which Q. Caecilius Epirota lectured on Virgil and alii poetae noui (Sueton. Gramm. 16.3). Virgil, Lucretius and Horace would have been in a sense antiqui by the time they were commonly read in preference to Ennius and Lucilius. The first clear sign of Virgil's classical status is in anecdotes like those about Caligula (Sueton. Cal. 34.2) and Remmius Palaemon (Sueton. Gramm. 23.4). Persius' detailed knowledge of Horace's poetry and the story told in his biography (51–3) that he read Lucilius only after leaving the school of Remmius Palaemon provide the earliest evidence for the rise of Horace and the fall of Lucilius. Tacitus separated Lucretius from Virgil and Horace, putting him with Lucilius, Sisenna, Varro and Calvus (Dial. [a work with a mid-seventies dramatic setting] 23.2). On the other hand, Seneca, no lover of the poets of the old Republican syllabus (see Dial. 5.37.5, Epist. 58.5, Gell. 12.2.1–8), cited Lucretius quite often. Quintilian cited him twice and mentioned him with respect as the next best hexameter poet after Virgil (Inst. 10.1.87; 12.11.27).

141 Suda iv 729.6.

142 Suda i 356.31–2.

143 P. Oxy. 2.221, col. xv.16–17 (Ammonius on Hom. Il. 21.290 [= Schol. Il. v 107 Erbse]).

144 Even if Gellius' stories about Probus are fictitious (see nn. 5–7) they attest a considerable reputation for him in the second century. Schol. Ver. Virg. Aen. 9.369 suggests that C. Sulpicius Apollinaris thought his opinions worth citing.

145 On the dubious authenticity of some of the literary manuscripts referred to by Gellius and others see Goold, G. P., HSCPh 74 (1970), 160–2Google Scholar, Zetzel, , HSCPh 77 (1973), 235–43Google Scholar, Holford-Strevens, L. A., LCM 7, 5 (1982), 67Google Scholar.

146 With Sueton. Gramm. 24.5 contrast Suda i 351, 24–5 (s.v. 3892 Ἀρίσταρχος).

147 See part III.

148 As Scivoletto and Büchner (above n. 4) seem to argue.

149 See above, n. 98.

150 How much Aristarchus was concerned with purely aesthetic judgements is unclear. The Paris list mentions verses marked with the obelus ipsius Homeri proprios sed non eo dignos (for the notion of Homer occasionally slipping see Lucil, 344–7, Hor. Ars 359–60, [Longin.], Subl. 9.14, 33.4, 36.2).

151 Cf. Aistermann, op. cit. (n. 4), 11–13 (arguing that the notae simplices had to do with rhetorical exercises), Scivoletto, op. cit. (n. 4), 114–15 (= Studi, 194–6).

152 Cf. Sueton. Gramm. 4.6–10.

153 Cf. for the phraseology schol. A Hom. Il. 20.269–72 μάχεται δ⋯ σαɸ⋯ς τοῖς γνησίοις, schol. Ver. Virg. Aen. 9.369 adnotant…contrarium illi esse ‘sepsit se…habenas’ (7.600).

154 For δισσολογία as a reason for deletion see schol. A. Hom. Il. 1.474. For the topic of περισσότης see Ammonius, Hom. Il. 21.290 (P. Oxy. 2.221, col. xv.25–6), schol. T Hom. Il. 1.189–93, schol. A Il. 1.295 et al., Serv. Dan. Virg. Aen. 1.21 hi duo si eximantur nihilominus sensus integer erit, 4.418 Probus sane sic adnotauit ‘si hunc uersum omitteret melius fecisset’, 8.627 et quibusdam uidetur hunc uersum omitti potuisse, 8.731 hunc uersum notant critici quasi superfluo et humiliter additum. The symbol Θ is elsewhere associated with different topics: Sidon. Carm. 9.334–5 (talking of his cousin Probus as a critic of bad verse) isti qui ualet exorationi destrictum bonus applicare theta; Auson. Epigr. 87.12. The Cava essay de notis antiquorum (see above, n. 77), lists a theta in amputandis.

155 For the ⋯λλότριος στίχος see schol. A Hom. Il. 1.365. On literary κλοπή see Theopompus ap. Athen. 11.508c–d (FGrH 115 F 259), Porph. ap. Euseb. Praep. eu. 10.3, Clem. Alex. Strom. 6.2, Diog. Laert. 2.97, 3.57, Vitruv. 7 praef. 4–7, Donat. Vit. Verg. 45–6. The topic is not always easily separable from that of μετάɸρασις (see below, n. 159). The sign → if correctly explained (alienus et superuacuus), could have had to do only with interpolation.

156 It seems likely that Probus used two signs to mark two quite different phenomena and that our list has suffered corruption. For metrical criticism in commentaries see Sisenna, ap. Rufin. Gramm. Lat. vi 561.8–10Google Scholar (on Plaut. Aul. iv 9 according to Hermann) haec scaena anapaestico metro est. sed concisa sunt, ut non intellegas, Serv. Virg. Buc. 2.50 non slat uersus (cf. Georg. 2.82, Aen. 3.535 [citing Donatus], 4.132, 5.299, 10.129, 11.243), Aen. 2.778 hic uersus caret scansione, 3.336 contra metrum (cf. 3.636, 4.22, 10.778), 5.481 pessimus uersus, 12.144 animaduertendum autem uersum hunc sine caesura esse. For criticism of τ⋯ ⋯πρεπές and the like see comm. anon. P. Oxy. 8.1086, col. ii.63–73 (on Aristarchus' athetesis of Il. 2.791–5), schol. A Hom. Il. 1.29–31, 3.423, 4.345–6, 14.1, 24.130–2, schol. Hom. Od. 6.244, Cornutus ap. schol. Ver. Virg. Aen. 5.488, Probus ap. Donat. Ter. Phorm. 1005, Serv. Virg. Aen. 2.592, Serv. Dan. Virg. Aen. 8.731.

157 For the explanation of Π (contra historiam) cf. schol. Pind. Ol. 4.31 b παρ' ἱστορίαν (Pyth. 7.9b, schol. Soph. Trach. 633, Phil. 425, 445, schol. Eurip. Androm. 107, 224, 616, Rhes. 508). The phrase παρ' ἱστορίαν got into common parlance (see Cic. Att. 13.10.1 and Housman, A. E., CR 15 [1901], 155Google Scholar [= Class. Pap. ii 536–7]). For the duty of the grammaticus to comment on historia see Cic. De orat. 1.187, Quintil. Inst. 1.8.18. ‘History’ included the events and persons of the heroic period. For concern about Virgil's departures from the common tradition see Hyginus ap. Gell. 10.16, Macrob. Sat. 5.17.5, 5.22.9 (Probus notat), Serv. Virg. Aen. 1.267, 474, 8.493.

158 The explanations of — (praepositum sine consequente) and ∸ (consequens sine praeposito) are not entirely clear. For the general topic see schol. A Hom. Il. 7.443, 20.269–72, 24.614–17, Hor. Ars 41–3, Serv. Virg. Aen. 2.668, 7.601, 8.40, 9.365, 10.157, 331 (Donatus), 12.120, 124, 357.

159 For the topic of dependence on a previous author see, where Greek literature is concerned, Glaucus in hyp. Aesch. Pers. (on the beginning of the Aeschylean tragedy and that of one by Phrynichus), schol. Pind. Pyth. 4.507 (τ⋯ χῖ ὅτι ⋯κ τ⋯ν Ἡσιόδου Ἔργων εἴληπται), Theon, Progymn. in Rhet. Gr. ii 62.22–63.30). On passages of Virgil dependent on Greek literature see Macrob. Sat. 5 passim, Serv. Dan. Virg. Aen. 1.44 et al. For dependence on older Latin authors see Macrob. Sat. 6.1–2, Serv. Dan. Virg. Aen. 1.44 et al. For dependence on both Greek and Latin predecessors see Macrob. Sat. 6.3, Serv. Virg. Aen. 6.625. The topic was considered important both in διόρσωσις (cf. Gell. 1.21) and in κρίσις (cf. Gell. 17.10, Serv. Dan. Virg. Aen. 8.625).