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V188 PLANUDES. PLANTUDES.
this species of poetry, in 91 chapters. 2. Jocular 437). The first printed edition was published
or satiric (K-crTLrCKa), chaps. 53. 3. Sepulchral about 150 years after the compilation of the work
(/s7r1Ti,u9La), chaps. 32. 4. Inscriptions on statues by Planudes, under the following title;-'Av'oXoof athletes and other works of art, descriptions of fyia Slaqe'pcv LE7rypa,u/adTwv, asxaifoLs ovvreOesUEplaces, &c. chaps. 33. 5. The Ecphrasis of Christo- vwv ooqeos, e'rl La(eppo'ps 67roOe'esLuv, epLve-as
dorus, and epigrams on statues of charioteers in XoderwV- f7riLL-V ica1 7rpaytrCeVrwv i y evoEsivwv,
the Hippodrome at Constantinople. 6. Dedicatory cs?yEvo1e'Xcv ae7 dya-qlv. AsLpp'VOV Be Fi E47rTd
(dvarla71rKca'd), chaps. 27. 7. Amatory (epwvsKad). Tr1 A'a'a or,3lALu ov Ka1 TOS'WV eIS Ksesphata saa'
It should be observed that this division is alto-'oTGLXe7ov 8lETce leuOeerV, ra'3e IrepiXGet'T rpCTOVY'
gether different from the seven books of the Els dyavas;-then follow the epigrams: it was
Anthology of Agathias, with which that of Planudes edited by Janus Lascaris, and printed at Florence,
has sometimes been confounded. The opinion of 1494, 4to.; it is printed in capital letters. This
Reiske, that Planudes collected chiefly those an- Editio Princeps is by far the best of the early
cient epigrams which had been overlooked by editions; the errors of the press are much fewer
Cephalas, is at once contradicted by a comparison than in the Aldine and Wechelian editions; and
of the two Anthologies, and can only have arisen the text is a faithful representation of the MS. from
from the circumstance that Reiske mistook the which it is printed. At the end of the work is a
Leipzig copy of the Palatine Anthology for the Greek poem by Lascaris, and a Latin letter by hint
complete work, whereas that copy only contains to Pietro di Medici, occupying seven pages, which
the epigrams which are not found in the Planudean are wanting in several of the still existing copies
Anthology. The true theory seems to be that of of this rare work: these seven pages were reprinted
Brunck and Jacobs, namely, that Planudes did by Maittaire, in his Anal. Typ. vol. i. pp. 272-2283.
little more than abridge and re-arrange the An- 2. The first and best of the Aldine editions was
thology of Constantinus Cephalas. Only a few printedatVenice, 1503, 8vo.,under the title: Floriepigrams are found in the Planudean Anthology, leqgiunz dil-ersorunz Epig rasmmataum in Septera Liblaos
which are not in the Palatine. With respect to —'Avyoho/a 3yae ppwav'E'rLypae/xaurwv, and so on,
the fourth book of the Planudean, on works of nearly as in the title of Lascaris. The text is a
art, &c., which is altogether wanting in the Palatine, reprint of the edition of Lascaris, but less accurate.
it is supposed by Jacobs that the difference arises It contains nineteen additional epigrams; but its
solely from the fact of our having an imperfect great value consists in an appendix of various
copy of the work of Cephalas. Jacobs has in- readings from MS. codices. Reprints of this
stituted a careful comparison between the contents edition in 1517 and 1519 are mentioned by some
of the two Anthologies (Proleg. pp. lxxxiii.- bibliographers, but it is very probable that the
lxxxvii.), which places Brunck's theory beyond all dates are erroneously given, and that the edition
doubt. of 1503 is the one meant to be described.
From the time of its first publication, at the end 3. The next edition was the Juntine, 1519,
of the 15th century, down to the discovery of the under the title: Florilegislm diversorum Epigr-anmPalatine Annthology in the 17th, the Planudean mnatums, c&., as in the Aldine: and at the end,
Anthology was esteemed one of the greatest trea- Impressum Florentiae per hIeredes Plilippi Juntae
sures of antiquity, and was known under the name Florentini. Anno a Viygznis nuntio dxix. supora
of The Greek Anthology. mille. It is a mere reprint of the Aldine, with
Planudes, however, was but ill qualified for the some differences of arrangement, and with more
duties of the editor of such a work. Devoid of misprints.
true poetical taste, he brought to his task the con- 4. Two years later, Aldus himself published a
ceit and rashness of a mere literatus. The dis- second edition: Florilegintn, Wc. Solerti nuaper
covery of the Palatine Anthology soon taught repulratuzm cura. nMDxxI. 8vo. The title-page
scholars how much they had over-estimated the goes on to state that the errors of the former ediworth of the Anthology of Planudes. On com- tion were corrected in this: but the fact is that
paring the two collections, it is manifest that this is a still more inaccurate reprint of the former
Planudes was not only guilty of the necessary edition, with a few variations, especially the recarelessness of a mere compiler, but also of the ception into the text of some very bad various
wilful faults of a conceited monk, tampering with readings from the Appendix to the first edition.
words, "expurgating" whole couplets and epi- 5. The edition of Badius or the Ascensian,
grams, and interpolating his own frigid verses. Paris, 1531, 8vo., is an inaccurate reprint of the
He reaped the reward which often crowns the second Aldine. It is very scarce.
labours of bad editors who undertake great works. 6. A few years later, the first attempt at a
The pretensions of his compilation ensured its commentary on the Anthology was made by Vingeneral acceptance, and prevented, not only the centius Opsopoets, in his work entitled: In GCraeexecution of a better work, which in that age corum Epigramrmzataum Libros quatuor Annotationes
could scarcely be hoped for, but, what was far longe doctissisnae quasn primuzsl in lucene editae.
more important, the multiplication of copies of Vincentio Opsopoeo Auctore. Cuez Indice. Basil.
the more ancient Anthologies; and thus modern 1540, 4to. Its value is very small.
scholars are reduced to one MIS. of the Anthology 7. A much better commentary accompanied the
of Cephalas, which, excellent as it is, leaves many edition of Brodaeus: Epigranssaatuaa Graecorum,
hopeless difficulties for the critic. Libri VII. annotationibus Jomnni Brodaei Turonensis illustrati, quibus additus est in calce operis
EDITIONS OF THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. rerum a( vocum explicatarusn Index. Basil. 1549,
a. Tle Anthology of Alaximns Planudes. fol.
8. A very accurate reprint of the second Aldine
1. There are several codices of the Planudean edition, with new Indices, appeared at Venice,
Anthology (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 430-_ aop. Petrumlz et Jo. Mlariiam Nicolenses Sabienses,