40G PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMEBICAH A.CADEMY. 



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



t us i> ascribed by Aelian (XIII, 14): vo-Ttpov bi (i. e., after L gus, 



who had just been mentioned) UtiaicrTpaTos o-vv<iyayu>v dntqbrjvt ti)v 'iAiaoa 



Kut 'oSiW* utv. The word "dwcaVn**" without a context might beof doubt- 

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

 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 12 century scholion 13 to the VpappaTiKi) of Dionysius 

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

 though interesting is not without obvious historical inaccuracies. It 



runs thus : tKTjpv^tv eV 71-0077 777 'EXXdoi tov e\ovra 'OprjpiKOVS o~r'i\ovi dyaytiv 

 npos (ivruv . . . Kai ptra to irdvras o~vvayayt~iv, irapeKaKe<r€P ({38op.r)Kovra bvo 

 ypiippariKovs crvvOelvai tci tov 'Opijpov Hkcio-tov kut Ibiav, onu>t av bd£r) tu> avvn- 

 BivTt kh\o)s ex flv • • ' Ka ' M eT " T0 fKacrTOv avvde'tv.ii Kara ttjv eavrov yvuprjv, 

 els tv o-vvr)yaye Trdvrat tovs irpoXtxdtvTas ypappariKovs. . . . ovtol oxjv diepoao-d- 

 ptvoi ov npos (piv, aXAo irpos to dXrjdts Kai nav to 777 T('x v !) dppd(nv, tKpivav 

 Trdvres koivt) Kai 6po(pa>va>s, KpaTrjo~<u Tr t v avvdeaiv re Kai 8iopda>o~iv ' Apio-rdpxov 

 Ka\ Zrjvoa'dTov. Kai ndXiv tKpivav tcov 8vo avvdeo-foiv re Kai biop6u>cr(utv {BtXriova 



t!)v 'Apio-Tdpxov. 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: 



Tbv ptyav iv $ov\ri TltiatffTpaTov, bs rbv'OnTjpov 

 tfdpoiffa (TiTopd5T]v rb irplv dtiSS/j-tvov. 



Suidas 14 also, the lexicographer, under the word ""o^por," relates 

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



are these: varepov bi o-wtTtBt] Kai avvfraxdr) WTO noWiov, Kai pdXiara vno 



ntto-io-TpaTov, tov TQ>v'A0T)vaiuv Tvpdwov. Poi 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. 



12 The principal commentators on Dionysius Thrax wrote in the sixth and 

 nth centuries. We prohahly have here a note hy Heliodorus, who wrote in 

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

 this Bcholion. 



u in Bekker'e Anecdota, p. 767 ff. 

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



