Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt, Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

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Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt Aeschylus’ Tragedies are here presented in the original Greek, with Latin translations, notes, scholia, and readings assembled by one of the eminent classical scholars of the nineteenth century, Samuel Butler (1774–1839). Based upon the monumental seventeenth-century commentary edition by Thomas Stanley, and drawing upon scholarship published in the intervening century, Butler’s four volumes of the complete plays represent an important synthesis of early critical responses to Aeschylus. The history of Greek scholarship in England – from the labours of one of its first and most influential interpreters, Stanley, to the efforts of one of its most respected teachers, Butler – is amply demonstrated in this set of works. The first volume (1809) contains Prometheus Bound and The Suppliants in Greek, with Stanley’s Latin translation and notes. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later bishop of Lichfield, Butler is central to histories of classical scholarship and education in England.

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Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt Volume 1 E dited by Samuel Bu tler and Thomas Stanley

C A m B R i D G E U N i V E R Si T y P R E S S Cambridge, New york, melbourne, madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paolo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New york www.cambridge.org information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108014335 © in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2010 This edition first published 1809 This digitally printed version 2010 iSBN 978-1-108-01433-5 Paperback This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated. Cambridge University Press wishes to make clear that the book, unless originally published by Cambridge, is not being republished by, in association or collaboration with, or with the endorsement or approval of, the original publisher or its successors in title.

i E S C H Y L I TRAGOEDI^E QVJE SUPERSUNT DEPERDITARUM FABULARUM FRAGMENTA ET

SCHOLIA GRiEGA EX EDITIONE

THOMiE

STANLEII

CUM VERSIONE LATINA AB IPSO EMENDATA ET COMMENTARIO LONGE QUAM ANTEA F U I T AUCTIOR! EX MANUSCRIPTIS EJUS NUNC DEMUM EDITO. ACCEDUNT

VARIiE

LEGT1 0 NES ET

NOTiE VV. DD. CRITICS AC PHILOLOGICiE QUIBUS SUAS PASSIM INTERTEXUIT

SAMUEL

BUTLER,

A. M.

REGI-ffi SCHOLiE SALOPIENSIS ARCH1DIDASCALUS COLL. D I V . IOANN. APUD CANT ABE. NUPER SOCIUS.

TOM.

I.

CANTABRIGIJE. TYPIS AC SUMPT1BUS ACABEMICIS. M.DCCC.IX. I'ENEDNT LONDINI APUD W. R.LUNV.

CL. SALMASIUS DE HELLENISTICA, EPIST. DEDIC. p . 37.

%guis Mschylum possit ajjirmare Greece mine scienti magis patere expUcabilem, quam Evangelia aut Epistolas Apostolicas't Unus ejus Agamemnon obscuritate superat quantum est librorum sacrorum cum suis Hebraismis et Syriasmis, et tota Hellenisticca suppellectile, velfarragine.

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VICECOMITI • ALTHORP • DE • ALTHORP REGIAE • MAIESTATI BRITANNICAE . A • SECRETIS • CONSIL1IS ILLVSTRISSIMI • ORDINIS • PERISCELIDIS COMMILITONI LL.D • SS . R . ET • A • S BIBLIOTHECAE • MAGNA • PECVNIA . COMPARATAE AC • L I B R I S • R A R I S S I M I S • V B E R R I M E • I N S T R V C T A E POSSESSORI . DIGNISSIMO HVMANITATIS . AC . LITERARVM ERVDITO • ATQVE • M V N I F I C O . PATRONO NOVAM • HANC • AESCHYLI . EDITIONEM L. • M • D >D • Q

SAMVEL . BVTLER.

LECTURIS.

operis nostri volumen, L. B. reliqui etiam torai suo mox ordine excipient; prEefationem autem pleniorem, quae Notitiam Literariam, recensionem turn Codicum turn editionum JEschyli aliaque id genus continebit, ad finem editionis nostrae, unde hue facile transferetur a bibliopegis, necessario reservamus. Interea ad singulas tragoedias compendiorum explicationem adjecimus, quae subsidia hujus operis satis indicabit. Nomina enim virorum illustrium ibi omissa, Scaligeri, Bentleii, Isaaci Casauboni, contracta in Scalig. Bentl. Casaub. neminem morari possunt. Monendum est tamen illud Pears, quod ssepe occurrit, Ioannem Pearsonum tiotare, olim Cestrensem episcopum, qui ad marginem edit. H. Steph. qua prius usus esset Is. Casaubonus, ut manus ejus abunde testatur, quasdam Lectionis Varietates adnotavit : et Ioann. Miiller, cujus Notae in Commentario Philologico leguntur, virurn designare longe doctissimum, eundemque rerum Hel-veticarum scriptorem gravissimum, XRIMUM

Ioannem Miillerum, Bibliothecae Caesareae Vindobonensi praepositum, Taciturn hodiernurn, qui mecum observationes suas commimicare haud dedignatus est. Habes autem, L. B. Thomas Stanleii commentarium ex ipsius autographis, editionem alteram adornantis, plus asqua parte auctiorem. Habes quicquid in suam editionem comparaverat Askevius. Sed revera quas lectiofies Aurati, Jacobi, Jos. Scaligeri, Bourdelotii, Pearsoni, Is. Vossii commemorat Askevius, eas plerasque, si non omnes, occupaverat Stanleius in curis secundis, quocum scilicet a VV. DD. communicatse erant. Quin ille Codex Rawlinsoniensis, quern toties laudat Askevius, erat, ipso teste, tanturn editio H. Stephani cujus ad marginem conjecturae quaedam adscript* erant, quae ut plurimum ab Henrico Jacob. Coll. Merton. apud Oxonienses olim socio, et clarissimo Ioanne Pearsono episcopo Cestrensi profluxerunt: quern librum Askevio mutuo dedit Thomas Rawlinson. b

LECTURIS. Olim vero Thomse Stanleii fuisse literata institutio; ea nos dimittat docet Askevius, quod ex manu ejus feroces, malignos, implacabiles omcollegit. Cf. item Stanleium ad nibus qui a nobis dissentire ausi Agam. v. 214. et Anton. Wood fuerint, etiam in nugis ? Mallem Athen. Oxon. vol. II. col. 158. et sane literas Alphabeti nescire, quam seqq. Habes etiam Varietatem hujusmodi esse literatum. Hanc Lectionis, non solum e plurimis enim morum pravitatem nulla docCodicibus quorum quatuor (Ven. 1. 2. trina pensare potest, non si omnem Cant. 1. 2.) nunc primum collati sunt, noverimus scientiam, et linguis homised ab omnibus iEschyli editionibus, num et angelorum loquamur. Enimexcepta Botheana quse nullius est vero res ahsurda est eruditio sine auctoritatis, diligentissime ac fide- bonis moribus, in quibus cum primas lissime descriptam : conjecturas etiam partes teneant modestia et humanitas, VV. DD. hactenus ineditas, quas in si quis Homo natus, his neglectis, Specimine suo venditat Askevius, inista sibi placet, nee We, quicunque nisi ubi eas prseoccupaverat Stanleius sit, prcepostere et stulte elegit, et in curis secundis: Notas editorum omnium ante Stanleium integras, omniumque post Stanleium, plemmHoc ego consilio, in Notis Pauwique ipsorum verbis, ita selectas, ut anis et Heathianis omnes eorum nihil quod ad iEschylum enodandum digladiationes omnia in Stanleium r pertineret, tolleretur; ea tantum re- et alios doctos viros a Pauwio conjecta ciderentur, quse nimia essent et opprobria, ubicunque potui, plane evagantia. Habes nostrum denique sustuli; aliquando autem ita corpori passim, quale quale illud fuerit, notarum inheerent ut omnino tolli judicium interpositum, quod oratus nequeant. Quicquid denique utile iterum atque iterum L. B. aequi existimavi, diligenter servavi, quaebonique consulas. Ut ut rem dam etiam, etsi me judice minus gessero, nihil a me acriter, nihil utilia viderentur, tamen quia ab aspere, nihil ira aut odio dictum eruditis viris conscripta sunt, rejicere volui. Semper enim mihi obver- nolui; et ex toto commentatorum sabantur ilia quae a Marklando et editorum corpore, variisque hie prseclare dicta sunt *. Quo eru- inde per libros philologicos sparsim ditionis nomen, si barharorum animos prolatis observationibus, quicquid ad retineamus ? Quo simulationem rei iEschylum illustrandum pertineret optima*, si absit veritas ? Quid decerpsi. Omnes enim nobis, ut cum prodest, si pro mitibus probis, sim- Tullio nostro loquarf, quoadfacultas •plicibus, ingenuif, modestis, benevolis tulit, proposuimus, et ex nostro quoerga omnes homines, quales promittit que nonnihil in commune contulimus. In Dedic.

p. 4.

f De Invent. II. Prooem.

L E C T U R I S.

Quod si ea, quce in his annotationihus exponuntur, tantopere eligenda fuerunt quanto studio electa sunt, proJ'ecto neque nos, neque alios industries nostrce pcenitebit. Sin autem temere aliquid alicujus prceteriisse, aut non satis eleganter secuti videbimur; docti ab aliquo, facile et libenter

Dabam e Reg. Schol. Salop. Idibus Juniis, M.DCCC.IX.

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