INTRODUCTION 



1842 are in the main critical, but the editor's remarks 

 on the interpretation of thorny passages are often 

 extremely acute, and always worth attention. The 

 mass of material collected by Schneider is put into 

 an accessible form. Wimmer is far more conservative 

 in textual criticism than Schneider, and has a better 

 appreciation of Theophrastus' elliptical and some- 

 what peculiar idiom, though some of his emendations 

 appear to rest on little basis. A collation of the 

 Paris MSS. (P and P,) was made for Wimmer; for 

 the readings of U and M he relied on Schneider, 

 who, in his fifth volume, had compared U with 

 Bodaeus' edition. A fresh collation of the rather 

 exiguous manuscript authorities is perhaps required 

 before anything like a definitive text can be pro- 

 \ided. Wimmer's Latin translation is not very- 

 helpful, since it slurs the difficulties : the Didot 

 edition, in which it appears, is disfigured with 

 numerous misprints. 



(Sandys' History of Classical Scholarship (ii. p. 380) 

 mentions ti-anslations into Latin and Italian by 

 Bandini ; of this work 1 know nothing.) 



C. Other Commentators 



Seal. J. C. Scaliger : Commenlarii et animadversiones on 

 the TTcpi ^vroji' la-Topia posthumously published 

 by his son Sylvius at Leyden, 1584. (He also 

 WTote a commentary on the Trepi atriwr, which 

 was edited by Robertus Constantinus and pub- 



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