INTRODUCTION 



Stackhouse, Oxford, 1813: a prettily printed 

 edition with some illustrations ; text founded on 

 Aid. The editor seems to have been a fair 

 botanist, but an indifferent scholar, though occa- 

 sionally he hits on a certain emendation. The 

 notes are short and generally of slight value. 

 The book is however of interest, as being appa- 

 rently the only work on the ' Enquiry ' hitherto 

 published in England. 



J. G. Schneider (and Linck), Leipzig : vols, 

 i.-iv. published in 1818, vol. v. in 1821 ; contains 

 also the Trcpl atrtwi/ and the fragments, and a re- 

 print of Gaza's version (corrected). The fifth, 

 or supplementary, volume, written during the 

 author's last illness, takes account of the Codex 

 Urbinas, which, unfortunately for Schneider, 

 did not become known till his edition was 

 finished. It is remarkable in how manv places 

 he anticipated by acute emendation the readings 

 of U. The fifth volume also gives an account of 

 criticisms of the earlier volumes by the eminent 

 Greek Adamantios Koraes ^ and Kurt Sprengel. 

 This is a monumental edition, despite the ver- 

 bosity of the notes, somewhat careless references 

 and reproduction of the MSS. readings, and an 

 imperfect comprehension of the compressed 

 style of Theophrastus, which leads to a good 

 deal of wild emendation or rewriting of the 

 text. For the first time we find an attempt at 

 See Sandys, op. cit. iii. pp. 361 foil. 



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