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It is necessary, I think, at this point to consider briefly from what 



authorities Eustathius drew his information. Duntzer 22 Beams ag- 

 nostic on this point, though confident in the real antiquity of Buch 

 sources. "It is diirieult," he writes, "to see whom ESustathins means 

 by oi ndkatol in his note on the beginning of Iliad K. We cannot say 

 that he means any particular scholar of the Alexandrian school. On 

 the other hand, much less can we say that the supposition of the 

 insertion of a book by Pisistratus was wholly unknown to the Alexan- 

 drians. So the supposition of Lehrs, that the old Alexandrines had no 

 knowledge of the especial critical significance of the arrangement of 

 the Homeric poems by Pisistratus, is unfounded." Eustathius, as we 

 know, 23 further used as sources an epitome made from the commen- 

 taries of the four men whom I have previously mentioned as probable 

 sources of our Townley scholia, viz., Aristonicus, Didymus, Herudian, 

 and Nicanor. Likewise the A*£«s of Aristophanes, the rhetorical dic- 

 tionary of Dionysius, the encyclopaedic lexicon of Apion, and Herod- 

 orus and the Paralipomena of Porphyrius. Furthermore, I have noted 

 at least one place in Eustathius (Vol. I, p. 230, 1. 46) where he quotes 

 directly from Strabo (IX, 394, 10) in very nearly his exact words, 



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as 6 yfo>ypa(pos laroptl. And finally Sengebusch, 24 who refers in turn 

 to the opinion of Lehrs, holds exactly the same view as Christ. Im- 

 portant therefore are the statements of Eustathius, inasmuch as he 

 himself, though a comparatively late writer, drew his information, so 

 far as we can ascertain, from writers even as early as the Alexandrian 

 school. 



In a document three centuries later than Eustathius, that is, in a fif- 

 teenth century manuscript in the library of the Collegio Romano, con- 

 taining fifteen plays of Plautus, is preserved aversion of the l'isistratean 

 story identical with the account of Tzetzes. Ritschl conjectures that 

 these scholia are drawn from Tzetzes, as they are, without a doubt. The 

 similarity is conclusive. Towards the end of the Poenulus they run 



22 Horn. Abhandlungen, Leip., 1872, p. 4. 



23 See Christ, Griesch. lit. Gesch., ed. iv, p. 72. 



24 Homerica Dissertatio, I, Leip., 1870, p. 40. 



