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DE CODICIBUS LIBRORUM XIII—XV.

mea refert demonstrare, verba κομίζων καὶ ineptā neque cum Reiskeio in ὀνομάζων vel κράζων καὶ neque cum Madvigio in γνωρίζων καὶ mutanda, sed optimis codicibus P et A testibus damnanda esse. Praeterea moneo, verba quae sequuntur ἐξάγειν — ἀφανίζειν — ἀπάγοντα ἀνασώζειν, quae docti quidam suspecta reddebant, de industria ita delecta esse, ut non minus in servos fugitivos quadrent quam in milites domo ad bellum periculosum proficiscentes. XIV 28, 5 Verbum ἐγκαταβαίνουσι, quod deest in PAL, recentiores editores perperam receperunt, postquam iam Rhodomannus, et is codicum ignarus, atque Wesseling illud verbum parasiticum exturbaverunt. Gravissimos tantum, non omnes tractavi locos, qui cum lege a me de codicibus iudicandis lata pugnare videntur. Invenientur ab aliis alia, inprimis in libro quinto decimo, quibus sententia mea, quam quidem dixi de recentioribus codicibus, aliquatenus labefactetur: fundamenta ipsa opus Diodori ex codicibus construendi ne non recte a me posita sint, non habeo cur timeam.

Traduzione

ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF BOOKS XIII—XV.

concerns me here to demonstrate, that the words κομίζων καί (bringing and) are inept and are to be condemned, not to be changed with Reiske into ὀνομάζων (naming) or κράζων καί (shouting and) nor with Madvig into γνωρίζων καί (recognizing and), but, with the best codices P and A as witnesses, are to be rejected. Moreover, I note that the following words ἐξάγειν — ἀφανίζειν — ἀπάγοντα ἀνασώζειν (to lead out — to make away — leading back to save), which certain scholars rendered suspect, were deliberately so chosen as to apply no less to fugitive slaves than to soldiers setting out from home for a dangerous war. XIV 28, 5 The word ἐγκαταβαίνουσι (they go down into), which is missing in PAL, was wrongly received by more recent editors, after Rhodoman (ignorant of the manuscripts) and Wesseling had already expelled that parasitic word. I have dealt only with the most serious, not all the passages which seem to conflict with the law I have laid down for judging manuscripts. Others will be found by others, especially in the fifteenth book, by which my opinion, which I have expressed concerning the more recent manuscripts, may be to some extent undermined: I have no reason to fear that the very foundations of constructing Diodorus' work from the manuscripts have not been correctly laid by me.