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DE CODICIBUS LIBRORUM XI—XII.

servavit unus P, ignarum fuisse et tali exemplari usum esse, ex quali derivati sunt et AHL et FIKM.*) Archetypum ut mendis ex fallaci litterarum forma natis corruptum erat, ita vitiis ex prava pronuntiandi consuetudine ortis inquinatum fuisse nobis persuasimus; quorum vitiorum utrum librarium an Diodorum ipsum reum facias, saepius haesitabis. Forma quidem ἀνδρία in ceteris libris usitata refellitur facile codice P, qui formam ἀνδρεία servavit; dubium autem interdum videri potest, utrum forma στρατία an στρατεία in archetypo fuerit, quae vocabula in omnibus codicibus (et editionibus) saepissime commutatae sunt. Suo iure Dindorf scripsit XI 48, 4 πολλοὺς κατέγραψεν εἰς τὴν στρατιάν [στρατείαν cod.], ἣν παρεδίδου Πολυζήλῳ. Neque minus certum est etiam XI 84, 4 ex codice P restituendum esse: καταλέξειν εἰς τὴν στρατιὰν [στρατείαν v.] τῶν νέων τοὺς ἀκμάζοντας ταῖς ἡλικίαις atque XVI 73, 3 κατέλεγον τοὺς ἀρίστους εἰς τὴν στρατιὰν [στρατείαν v.] καὶ τῶν Λιβύων τοὺς εὐθέτους ἐστρατολόγουν. Hoc testantur loci, ubi pro στρατιά synonymum quoddam positum est, veluti: XIII 2, 2 διεκελεύοντο καταγράφειν ἑαυτοὺς εἰς τοὺς στρατιώτας

*) Diodori bibliothecam iam antiquis temporibus ab homine litterato, quem dicunt Graeci διασκευαστήν, stilo non religioso retractatam et interpolatam esse, docuit Cichorius (dissert. Lips. 1886 cap. III) nomina magistratuum Romanorum persecutus. Collegit enim multa nomina, quae in codicibus Diodori deterioribus interpolata desunt in codice P, quorum, ut Cichori verbis utar, alia omnino non sunt nomina Romana, alia potius primis post Christum natum saeculis in usu fuerunt ac minime quarti urbis conditae saeculi conveniunt nomenclaturae; quaedam sunt nomina hominum, quos novimus aetatis fere Domitiani imperatoris. DIODORUS II. 3

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ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF BOOKS XI—XII.

only P preserved, was ignorant of it and used such an exemplar from which both AHL and FIKM are derived.*) Just as the archetype was corrupted by errors born from deceptive letter forms, so too we are persuaded that it was contaminated by faults arising from a corrupt habit of pronunciation; as to which of these faults you would hold the scribe or Diodorus himself responsible, you will often hesitate. Indeed, the form ἀνδρία, customary in the other books, is refuted easily by codex P, which preserved the form ἀνδρεία; but it can sometimes seem doubtful whether the form στρατία or στρατεία was in the archetype, words which in all manuscripts (and editions) are very often interchanged. Dindorf rightly wrote at XI 48, 4 πολλοὺς κατέγραψεν εἰς τὴν στρατιάν [στρατείαν cod.], ἣν παρεδίδου Πολυζήλῳ. No less certain is it that at XI 84, 4, from codex P, we must restore: καταλέξειν εἰς τὴν στρατιὰν [στρατείαν v.] τῶν νέων τοὺς ἀκμάζοντας ταῖς ἡλικίαις and at XVI 73, 3 κατέλεγον τοὺς ἀρίστους εἰς τὴν στρατιὰν [στρατείαν v.] καὶ τῶν Λιβύων τοὺς εὐθέτους ἐστρατολόγουν. This is attested by places where a synonym is placed for στρατιά, such as: XIII 2, 2 διεκελεύοντο καταγράφειν ἑαυτοὺς εἰς τοὺς στρατιώτας

*) That Diodorus' library was already in ancient times revised and interpolated by a literate man, what the Greeks call a διασκευαστής, with an unscrupulous pen, was taught by Cichorius (dissert. Lips. 1886 cap. III) following the names of Roman magistrates. For he collected many names, which in the inferior manuscripts of Diodorus are interpolated, that are lacking in codex P; of these, to use Cichorius' words, some are not Roman names at all, others were rather in use in the first centuries after Christ's birth and least of all agree with the nomenclature of the fourth century of the city's founding; certain ones are names of men whom we know from roughly the age of the emperor Domitian. DIODORUS II. 3

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