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INTRODUCTION


  • Pol. : emendations of Politian (fifteenth century), if from Poggio’s MS., “from P.” is added.
  • Dom. : Emendations of Domitius Calderinus (fifteenth century).
  • ϛ : later MSS.

The “Thebaid” and “Achilleid”

The MSS. of the Thebaid, and in a lesser degree, of the Achilleid are extremely numerous, the former epic especially having been very popular in the Middle Ages. They fall into two well-defined groups, of which one has only one representative, the so-called Puteanus, at Paris, written at the end of the ninth century, and the other consists of a number of MSS. of the tenth and eleventh centuries, the offspring of a MS. now lost, but dating from nearly a century before Puteanus. These, following the Teubner and Oxford editions,[1] I have designated P and ω respectively. When any particular one of the latter class is quoted, ω, of course, signifies the other members of the group. Later MSS. may be ignored.

There are remarkable differences between the two groups: the most striking will be found at iv. 555, x. 135, xi. 490, but on frequent occasions the difference is one that can hardly be accounted for on grounds of ordinary textual error.[2] H. W. Garrod in his Introduction to the Thebaid and Achilleid

  1. ↑ By A. Klotz (Teubner) and H. W. Garrod (Oxford Classical Texts).
  2. ↑ See, for instance, Theb. iii. 362, 370, 372, 412, 454, 527, 658, 699.
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