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PRAEFATIO.

existerent, plerumque ea re factum est, quod vocabula paria vel ὁμοιοτέλευτα librario occasionem dederunt ab uno ad alterum aberrandi. Fuit is quidem homo non satis attentus parumque doctus, qua re etiam factum est, ut cum alia mendose scriberet, tum vehementer peccaret in nominibus Graecis et Romanis. Correxit autem ipse haud pauca perperam scripta, alia mutavit manus paullo posterior aut Gregorius, ad quem auctorem summaria quoque referenda sunt brevia in marginibus posita. Nova quae maioris sint momenti incrementa praeter XII 57, 4 e codice non accedunt ad ea quae edita sunt, sed multa corrupta vel in integrum restituuntur vel facilius sanari possunt nec paucae virorum doctorum emendationes confirmantur.' Tam modeste ac moderate iudicavit Bergmann de codice P; quod quanto plus temporis et laboris in eo perquirendo consumpsit, tanto maiore laude dignum videtur. Ingrati autem esse duco, id quod Dindorf in praef. vol. III conatus est, huic libro simulque Bergmanni meritis obtrectare. At quamvis longam seriem vocabulorum in P seu omissorum seu mendose scriptorum collegeris, codici P palmam praeripi non posse cum permulti alii loci docent tum hi:

Vulgaris lectio: | cod. P: XI 13, 2 οἱ Ἕλληνες ἐμφράξαντες τὰ στενὰ * τῶν ἐντὸς τῆς Εὐβοίας συμμαχούντων. | οἱ Ἕλληνες . . στενὰ προεμάχοντο τῶν ἐντὸς . . . . 38, 6 κηρύττουσα | κηρύττουσα διαπρυσίως 76, 5 τοῖς ἀρχαίοις πολίταις τὰς πόλεις ἀπέδοσαν, τοῖς δὲ ξένοις τοῖς διὰ τὰς δυναστείας ἀλλοτρίας τὰς πόλεις | τοῖς ἀρχαίοις — ἔχουσι συνεχώρησαν τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἀποκομίζειν καὶ κατοικεῖν ....

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PREFACE.

they occurred for the most part because paired words or homoioteleuta gave the scribe an opportunity to stray from one to the other. He was indeed a man not sufficiently attentive and insufficiently learned, by which fact it also happened that, while he wrote other things erroneously, he particularly erred in Greek and Roman names. He himself corrected not a few things written wrongly, other things were changed by a slightly later hand or by Gregory, to whom as author also the brief summaries placed in the margins are to be attributed. New readings of greater importance, besides XII 57, 4, are not added from the codex to those that have been published, but many corrupt passages are either restored completely or can be more easily healed, and not a few emendations of learned men are confirmed.' Thus modestly and moderately did Bergmann judge concerning codex P; the more time and labor he spent in thoroughly examining it, the more worthy of praise he seems. But I consider it ungrateful, as Dindorf attempted in the preface to vol. III, to disparage this book and simultaneously Bergmann's merits. But although you might collect a long list of words either omitted or erroneously written in P, that the palm cannot be snatched from codex P is shown by very many other passages, among them these:

Vulgate reading: | cod. P: XI 13, 2 οἱ Ἕλληνες ἐμφράξαντες τὰ στενὰ * τῶν ἐντὸς τῆς Εὐβοίας συμμαχούντων. | οἱ Ἕλληνες . . στενὰ προεμάχοντο τῶν ἐντὸς . . . . 38, 6 κηρύττουσα | κηρύττουσα διαπρυσίως 76, 5 τοῖς ἀρχαίοις πολίταις τὰς πόλεις ἀπέδοσαν, τοῖς δὲ ξένοις τοῖς διὰ τὰς δυναστείας ἀλλοτρίας τὰς πόλεις | τοῖς ἀρχαίοις — ἔχουσι συνεχώρησαν τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἀποκομίζειν καὶ κατοικεῖν ....

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