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The second life draws its facta from practically the same manuscripts 

 as the preceding, and in the following portion is rery similar to it: 



Tu &i iroii'jfiuTii ami to d\r]0q (mopuSrjv nf)(')Tij)ou aSufitva n<icrtVr^(iToi ABijvaiot 

 0~vvtTu£(i>, ws SrjXoi to (pff)i')fi€i>uu fTTtypaflfUl \6!}vrj(TLV iTTi-ytypaiiyLtvov iv CtKOH 



avToi toI n.tio-10-TpuTov. txft 8e o)8€ . . . and thru follows the ~ .■ l i j n ■ epigram. 



Briefly summing up the testimony of such accounts as we may con- 

 sider reliable for an Homeric edition by Pisistratus or Pisistratua and 

 his associates, the result is as follows. The accounts in Cicero, the 

 Townley scholia, Aelian, Suidas, and Bustathius all point to a <•- >llec- 

 tion of the poems by 1'isistratus alone and unassisted. The accounts 

 in Pausanias, Tzetzes, and, of course, the scholia to Plautus, are the 

 only ones which indicate any kind of a Pisistratean BohooL I do not 

 think, however, that we ought to consider this as strong evidence that 

 Pisistratus was not assisted by a board of associates in his work of 

 collecting. Naturally if he, a ruler in absolute authority and eager 

 for fame in letters, chose to be the proud supervisor of Buch a literary 

 undertaking, even though his co-workers were ever so numerous, the 

 edition which was produced would be called by subsequent writers 

 " I 'isistratus's Edition" and the "Collection which Pisistratus made," 

 while his helpers would be gradually disregarded, just as we, for in- 

 stance, refer to our Bible as "King James's Version. - ' 



The fact that the story of a collection of Homeric poems by Pisis- 

 tratus, or Pisistratus and certain associates, was known by Cicero and 

 several reputable writers after him is very significant. No one would 

 presume to say that, as in the case of Tzetzes, so also in the case of 

 Cicero, this story is a fabrication. In fact, he himself uses the word 

 "dicitur," which we may translate "we are told." What, then, was 

 his authority and the authority of these subsequent writers ? It seems 

 at least probable that the Alexandrian School, for instance, must have 

 played a part in handing down the tradition. The most that can be 

 said against this is that neither Aristarch us nor any 'of his successors 

 in any of their writings which are extant in whole or in part mention 

 the connection of Pisistratus with Homer as a collector or reviser ; but 

 this is obviously an unfair objection because, without doubt, only small 

 portions of all their writings have come down to us. And yel Flaeh* 8 

 derives especial satisfaction from the contemplation of such fa 

 for instance, thai Ariatarchua never so much as implies that the inser- 

 tions into the text of Homer e-j ially complimentary to the Athenians 



were found only in the manuscripts that came from Athens, although, 

 if this were the state of things, we should expect him to mention it. 



28 PeiflUtxatue u. Beine Lit. Tatigkeit, Tiibin jen 1886, p. 39. 



