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As alone and unassisted in a similar literary undertaking, Pisistra- 

 tus is' described by Aelian (XIII, 14): varepov Se (i. e., after Lycurgus, 



who had just been mentioned) neio-to-Tparoy a-wayaycbv dn6(pr)Vf TTjv 'iXtdSa 



Koi 'ohvaaeiav. The word " dTr((f>r]v( " without a context might be of doubt- 

 ful significance, but when, as here, it is combined with " awayayav," 

 a word which can refer to nothing but a written collection, there can 

 be little doubt that it means "publish " in the modern sense of the 

 word. It should be noted, however, that nothing of the nature of a 

 critical edition is here implied, merely a published collection. 



In a seventh ^^ century scholion ^^ to the Tpafi^iaTiKr) of Dionysius 

 Thrax we have the following account of a Pisistratean school, which 

 though interesting is not without obvious historical inaccuracies. It 



runs thus : eKfjpv^ev iv ndar] rfi 'EXXaSi tov €)(ovTa 'OfiTjpiKoiis (ttixovs dyayflv 

 npos avTov . . . Kai fiera to iravras a-vvayayelv, TraptKaXeaev f^8opr]KOVTa 8vo 

 ypapfxaTiKovs avvBelvai, to. tov 'O/iijpou (kuo-top kut I8iav, cttcos av ho^j] tm (tvvti- 

 BivTL KaXa>s e^eti' . . . koi p.fTa to €Ka(TT0v crvvdf'ivia kuto ttjv eavTov yvwfirjv, 

 els iv (Tvvrjyaye TrdvTOi tovs TTpo\e)(6evTas ypap,naTiKovs. . . . ovtoi ovv uKpoacra- 

 fievoi ov rrpos e'piv, dWd npos to dXrjdes Kai irdv to tji Tex^rj dpixo^ov, eKpivav 

 TrdvTfs Koivfj KQi 6po<pcovcx}S, KpaTTJcrai Tr/U (TVv6ecTiv Te Ka\ 8i.6pd(oa-iv K^KTTapxov 

 Koi ZrjvoSoTov. Ka\ nd\iv (Kpivaif Tav 8vo (TVv6i<Tf(ov Te koi diopdaaecov ^eKTiova 



TTjv 'ApidTdpxov. We shall later consider the glaring falsity of this last 

 statement about Aristarchus and Zenodotus when we find a similar 

 statement ridiculed by Tzetzes of the twelfth century. The same 

 scholia likewise contain an epigram on Pisistratus, which, as its date 

 has never been determined, loses much of its importance for our pres- 

 ent investigation. The following is an extract: 



rhv fxiyav ev ^ov\fi Ufiff^ffTparov, ts Thv''OfjLT]pov 

 ^dpoicra cnTopd57]y rh irplv dei56fj.(voi'. 



Suidas^* also, the lexicographer, under the word ""Oprjpos," relates 

 the story of the collection of poems made by Pisistratus. His words 



are these: va-rtpov Se a-wfTtSr] koI avveTaxdr] inro ttoXXcov, koI paXiaTa vno 



TietatcTTpaTov, tov twv ^Adr)vaiuiv rvpdvvov. For this statement Suidas may 

 very well have had Pausanias as his authority. This is not unlikely, 

 inasmuch as the two accounts are substantially similar, that is, in both 

 Pisistratus was only one of several who collected the Iliad and Odyssey. 



" The principal commentators on Dionysius Tlirax wrote in the sixth and 

 seventh centuries. We probably have here a note by Heliodorus, who wrote in 

 the seventh century, though we cannot determine with certainty the author of 

 this scholion. 



13 In Bekker's Anccdota, p. 7G7 ff. 



14 Ed. Bernhardy, Halle, 1853, 2, 1096. 



