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1550. 8vo. It is extremely rare: Jacobs even by far the best of his productions in that departstates in his Prolegonena that he had not seen it: ment of scholarship, and which have never been
Brunck, however, used a copy of it. printed except in this edition. The Greek text,
9. About the same time the third Aldine edition however, is only a reprint of the Wechelian edition,
was printed by the sons of Aldus, Venet. 1550- with many of its worst errors uncorrected.
1551, 8vo. It is the fillest, and the most sought It is now necessary to go back to the period
after of the Aldine editions, but not the best. when the discovery of the Palatine Codex placed
Though some of the errors of the second Aldine the Greek Anthology in an entirely new light.
edition are corrected, those of the first are generally
retained, and a new source of the worst sort of b. Eci/ions of tse Palctine Antloloyy.
errors is supplied by numerous conjectural emen- It is a curious flact that, for more than two
dations. The additions are very trifling. Stepha- hundred years from the discovery of the Palatine
nus calls the edition rich in nothing but faults, of Anthology by Salmasius, every project for publishwhich, he says, there are many thousands. ing a complete edition of it was left unfinished, and
10. The next and the best known of tile old this important service to literature was only pereditions is that of H. Stephanus, 1566:'AvOoAoyia formed about thirty years ago, by the late Frederick
tlasdpopcv EZriLypa/uacTwv 7rahaXlcvv eIS isrrci BlCNAa Jacobs.
&lppi1,Evi/. Florilegyiu diversor-'1s epigramenatues 1. Salnasius, as might naturally be expected'eterum, ins septel libros divisus1, ma#12Oo epsigllamlsea- from the discoverer of such a treasure, continlued
tllnz 72unzero et d(2lobts indlicibuls aluetlmn. Anno to devote the utmost attention to the Anthology,
ADLX).L XVI. Excubdebat li-enricus Stephansls, 4to. so that, his biographer tells us, he scarcely spent a
The distich which Stephanus inscribed on his title- day without reading and making notes upon it.
page, By other avocations, however, and by qularrels
" Pristinus a mendis fuerat lepor ante fetgatus: with the Ley den printers, who refused to publish
Nunc profugae menace, ilunc lepor ille redit," the Greek text without a Latin version, and with
Valesias, who would not assist in the labour except
gives a higher estimate of the value of his labours on the condition of having his own name prefixed
than modern critics have been able to assign to to the work, Salmasins was prevented from cointhem. Its excellencies consist in the addition of pleting his intended edition. He left behind him,
a large number of epigrams, not contained in any however, a large mass of notes and of unedited
of the former editions, of the Scholar of Maximus epigrams, which were only discovered by Brunck
P'lanudes, and of a commentary by Stephanus him- in the year 1777, after he had published his Anaself. Its chief faults are the arbitrary alterations lecta. We believe they have never been published;
in the arrangement of the epigrams, many rash but they were used by Jacobs in his Notes.
conjectural emendations of the text, and the im- 2. After the repeated delay of the promised
perfections of the notes, which, though confessed edition of Salmasius, Lucas Langeromanlnus underby Stepllanlus himself to be brief, contain, on the took, at the instance of Isaac Vossius, a journey
other hand, much irrelevant matter. This work to Rome, for the purpose of making a new collation
stands at the head of what may be called the third of the Vatican MS. with the Planudean Anthology;
fitmily of editions of the Anthology: the first and Fabricius states (Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 440)
comprising that of Lascaris, the first Aldine, and that he saw at Hamburg the copy of the Anthothe Juntine; and the second, the second Aldine and logy which contained the MS. notes of Langerthe Ascensian. mannus. The whole scheme, however, which seems
11. The Wechelian edition (Francofssrti apud to have been formed by Vossius in a spirit of rivalry
Claudium Marnium et Jo. Aubrium, 1600, fol.) is, to Salmasius, was abandoned on the death of the
in the text, a mere reprint of that of Stephanus, latter in 1653.
with few of its errors corrected, and many new 3. Meanwhile several AllS. Copies of the Vatican
ones introduced. It is, however, of considerable Codex were made, all of which were founded on
value, as it contains, besides some new Scholia, the collations of Salmasius, Sylburg, and Langerand the notes of Opsopoeus and Stephanus, the mann, and all of which were superseded by the
whole of the excellent commentary of Brodaeus. transcript made by the Abbate Joseph Spalletti, in
In spite of its faults, it remained for nearly two 1776. This precious MS., the excellence of which
centuries, until the publication of Brunck's Ana- is so great that it almost deserves to be called a faclecta, the standard edition of the Greek Anthology. simile rather than a copy, was purchased from the
12. The Commielinitsn edition, 1604, 4to. (re- heirs of Spalletti by Ernest II. Duke of Gotha
printed at Cologne, 1614), only deserves mention and Altenburg, for the library at Gotha, and
on account of the literal Latin version, by Eilhard formed the basis of Jacobs's edition of the Palatine
Lubinus. Anthology. - Referring the reader to the Prolego13. The last and most perfect of the editions of msena of Jacobs for an account of the labours of
the Planudean Anthology is that which was com- D'Orville, Jensius, Leich, Reiske, Klotz, and
merenced by IHieronymus de Bosch, and finished, Schneider, we proceed to mention those works
after his death, by Jacobus Van Lennep, in 5 vols. which have superseded all former ones.
4to. Ultraj. 1795, 1797, 1798, 1810, 1822. This
splendid edition (at least as to its outward form) c. The Editioss of Brunch and Jacobs.
is not only useful for those who wish to read the 1. In theyears1772-1776,appeared theAnalecta
Greek Anthology in the form in which it was Veterum Poetarum Graecorum. Editore Rich. Fr.
compiled by Planudes, but it is valuable on account 1'h. Bruneck. Argentorati, 3 vols. 8vo., which contains
of the large mass of illustrative matter which it the whole of the Greek Anthology, besides some
contains, including the notes of Huet, Sylburg, poems which are not properly included under that
and other scholars; but above all for the metrical title. The epigrams of the Anthology were edited by
Latin versions of Hugo Grotius, which are esteemed Brunck, from a careful comparison of the Planudean
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