NEWIIALL. — PISISTRATUS AND HOMER. 501 



thus -.25 Ceterum Pisistratus sparsam prius Homeri poesim ante Ptol- 

 emaeum Philadelphum annis ducentis et eo etiam amplius sollerti cnra 

 in ea quae nunc extant redegit volumina, usus ad hoc opus divinum 

 industria quattuor celeberrimorum et eruditissimorum hominum, vide- 

 licet, Concyli, Onomacriti Athenien. Zopyri Heracleotae et Orphei 

 Crotoniatae. Nam carptim prius Homerus et non nisi difficillime 

 legebatur. This of course is a quotation from the passage of Tzetzes 

 written after he had revolted from Heliodorus and his behef in the 

 school of seventy-two grammarians. These scholia also contain a few 

 sentences adapted from the Prolegomena of Tzetzes in the place where 

 he applies to Heliodorus the epithet of tw ^^eXvpa. They read as fol- 

 lows : Quum etiam post Pisistrati curam et Ptolemaei diligentiam Ari- 

 starchus adhuc exactius in Homeri elimandum collectionem vigilavit. 

 Heliodorus multa aliter nugatur quae longo convitio Cecius repre- 

 hendit. Nam ol' LXXII duobus doctis viris a Pisistrato huic negotio 

 praepositis dicit Homerum ita fuisse compositum. Qui quidem Zenodoti 

 et Aristarchi industria omi'ibus praelatam comprobarint, quod constat 

 fuisse falsissimum. Quippe cum inter Pisistratum et Zenodotum fue- 

 rint anni supra ducentos. Aristarchus autem quattuor annis minor 

 fuerit ipso et Zenodoto atque Ptolemaeo. This shows better than any- 

 thing else the utter falsity of the account given in Bekker's Anecdota 

 (p. 767 ff.). By the clause " Quum etiam post Pisistrati, etc." the text 

 recension of Zenodotus and Aristarchus is unquestionably meant. But 

 these are not quoted as the words of Tzetzes ^6 but of Heliodorus, as 

 the "multa aliter" clearly indicates. Without doubt, "Nam ol' LXXII, 

 etc.," down to "comprobarint" comes from Heliodorus, and "quod 

 constat " to the end from Tzetzes. But these late scholia add no new 

 testimony to that already given by Tzetzes himself. 



Our last and probably latest reference to the collection of Homeric 

 poems by Pisistratus is found in two lives ^'^ of Homer which were 

 made from the collation of facts preserved in fourteenth and fifteenth 

 century manuscripts. A passage from one of them reads : nepuau 8e 



Tas noXets f}8e ["O/irjpo?] ra iroirjfjiaTa, vaTepov 8e UeiaiarpaTOS avra crvvrjyayfVi 

 &)s TO eTriypapp.a tovtov St^XoI 



rhf fxiyav iv $ov\ais Xlnffiffrparov, os Tbv''Ofj.r)pov 

 i^6pot(Ta ciropaSrif rh irpXv aeiSo/xefoy, 



25 These scholia were first published by F. W. Ritschl, and can be found in 

 Vol. I of his Opuscula, p. 6, or in his Alexandrinisclie Bibliotheken, Breslau, 

 1838, p. 4. 



26 See Ritschl, Op., I, 33. 



2' See Jahn's Neue Jahrb. fiir Philologie u. Paedagogik, 9es Suppbd., p. 508. 



