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• Published in: The Classical Review 2006, Vol.56 (2), p.345-346
• Main Author: REEVE, M.D.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Research methodology; Reviews
• ISSN: 0009-840X; 1464-3561
• DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X06001831

The general approach, reasonable for such material, is to respect the manuscripts as cultural documents rather than to venture reconstruction as Funaioli would have done; but it leads here to a forest of annotation, rendered even more impenetrable, at least for occasional consultation, by an elaborate system of not always transparent abbreviations and cross-references (I particularly dislike unstopped abbreviations of names, such as Bo, Sto). Lomb. 2003, not yet available to me; matters of spelling that should have been dispatched summarily in the introduction clutter the apparatus, where they are even furnished with bibliography; ita scripsi regularly follows the last variant instead of the lemma; the apparatus on B needlessly refers to other versions printed on the same opening; notes like the one on et ne bis idem dixisset in B (p. 25), alleged to mean et non vel potius ne quidem bis idem dixerat, show more learning than judgement; and I would rather have read Italian than p. i in ea aetate, quae enim for quae or haec enim, hoc ocio dative, textum constituendum est qui, discederunt, p. ii inferre infer, quorum autem for quorum, p. iii ratio elicere licet, p. iv eo asseruato for eo quod asseruatur, p. v bibliopolis librarians, mihi adiuuit, p. x locum indicatur, p. xiii ex testimonium collatione, p. 8 alius commentarii, p. 28 irrepta that has crept in, p. 94 alium signum, pp. 112 and 120 elicenda, p. 112 testimonibus collatis, p. 114 hunc Graecum uerbum The Classical Review vol. 56 no. 2 The Classical Association 2006; all rights reserved 346 the classical review ac unde Callisti Callistus nominative, p. 115 ambiguisse, p. 137 undique for ubique. [...]H. does an excellent job of giving exactly the right amount of detailed information to enable the student to read the piece concerned with the necessary foreknowledge.