INTRODUCTION 



altered the text to accord with Gaza's 

 version.) 



G. The Latin version of Theodore Gaza, 1 the 

 Greek refugee : first printed at Treviso 

 (Tarvisium) in 1483. A wonderful work 

 for the time at which it appeared. Its 

 present value is due to the fact that the 

 translation was made from a different MS. 

 to any now known. Unfortunately how- 

 ever this does not seem to have been a 

 better text than that on which the Aldine 

 edition was based. Moreover Gaza did not 

 stick to his authority, but adopted freely 

 Pliny's versions of Theophrastus, emending 

 where he could not follow Pliny. There 

 are several editions of Gaza's work : thus 



G.Par.G.Bas. indicate respectively editions pub- 

 lished at Paris in 1529 and at Bale in 1534 

 and 1550. Wimmer has no doubt that the 

 Tarvisian is the earliest edition, and he 

 gives its readings, whereas Schneider often 

 took those of G.Bas. 



Vin.Vo.Cod.Cas. indicate readings which Schnei- 

 der believed to have MS. authority, but 

 which are really anonymous emendations 

 from the margins of MSS. used by his pre- 

 decessors, and all, in Wimmer's opinion 



1 See Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, ii. p. 62, etc. 



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