INTRODUCTION TO THE 



TREATISES CONCERNING ODOURS AND 



CONCERNING WEATHER SIGNS 



THE text of the two opuscula given here is re- 

 printed from that of Wimmer in the Teubner series, 

 1862, and in the Didot edition, 1866; the latter is 

 very carelessly printed : a few slight alterations are 

 mentioned in the notes. Both works are included 

 in the Aldine edition (1497), and in that of Camotius 

 (see p. x). For the de odoribus two MSS., Cod. 

 Vaticanus (A) and Cod. Parisiensis (Q) were collated 

 by Brandis. The text of the de signis is considered 

 by Wimmer to be very corrupt and defective : he 

 has admitted some emendations made by Schneider 

 from an old Latin translation published at Bologna 

 in 1516. Schneider's commentary makes frequent 

 reference to an edition of the opuscula of Theo- 

 phrastus by Turnebus and Daniel Furlanus, printed 

 at Hanau in Prussia in 1605, and reprinted there in 

 1615. 



The de signis was one of Aratus' authorities for 

 his Diosemeia : I have only however made reference 

 to that work where it appears to throw light on 

 the text of Theophrastus. These and most other 

 references for the two fragments I owe chiefly to 

 Schneider. 



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