NEWHALL. — PISISTRATUS AND HOMER. 501 



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

 emaeum Philadelphurn annis ducentis et eo etiam amplius sollerti cura 

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

 industria quattuor celeberrimorum et eruditissimorum hominum, vide- 

 licet, Concyli, Ononiacriti 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 belief 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 t<5 /3oVXvpo>. 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 omifibus praelatam comprobariut, 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 26 but of Heliodorus, as 

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

 etc.," down to "comprobariut" 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 27 of Homer which were 

 made from the collation of facts preserved in fourteenth and fifteenth 

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



ras noKas rj8e ["O/xr/poy] Ta noirjp,aTa. varepov 8e IleitTio-TpaTos avra avvTjyayev, 

 as to tniypapfia tovtov 8r]\ol 



rbv /xeyav iv QovXcus UfiaierTpaTov, os Tbt> a O/j.7ipoi> 

 ffQpoiaa. airopaSriv rb irp\v deiSd/uei'OJ'. 



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

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

 1838, p. 4. 



26 See Ritsehl, Op., I, .33. 



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



