The Poetics of Aristotle : edited with critical notes and a translation by S. H. Butcher

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THE

POETICS OF AEISTOTLE

EDITED

AMTH CEITICAL NOTES AND A TKANSLATION BY S.

H.

BUTCHEE

PROFESSOR OF GREEK DJ THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND OF CNIVEBSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD HON. LL.D. GLASGOW ; HON. LITT.D. DUBLIN ;

SECOND EDITION REVISED

ILontion

MACMILLAN AND

CO., Limited

XEW YORK THE MACMILLAX COMPANY :

1898

All rights reserved

NOV

6 19421

First Edition 1895

Second Edition 1893

PEEFACE The

following Text and Translation of the Poetics

form part of

tlie

volume

entitled Aristotle s

Theory

of Poetry and Fine Art, second edition (Macmillan

and

In this edition the Critical Notes

Co., 1898).

are enlarged,

and the Translation has been

The improvements

fully revised.

care-

in the Translation

are largely due to the invaluable aid I have received

from

my

friend

and colleague. Professor W. R.

To him

Hardie.

would express

I

my

warmest

thanks,

and

also

Tyrrell,

who

has most kindly read through the

proof-sheets,

and

another

to

talked

friend.

over

and

Professor

elucidated

various questions of interpretation and criticism.

In making use of the mass of

which has appeared

Germany, strict

I

have found

principle

critical material

in recent years, especially in it

necessary to observe a

of selection,

my

aim

still

being

They Apparatus

to keep the notes within limited compass. are not intended to form a complete Criticus, I

trust,

still

less to

do duty

for a

commentary,

however, that no variant or conjectural

THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE

VI

emendation of much importance has been overlooked.

In the

edition I admitted into the text

first

my own

conjectural emendations of

passages 4

:

—

xxv. 14

:

3

iii.

xix. 3

:

xxiii. 1

Of

xxv. 16.

:

:

in the following

xxiv. 10

:

these, one or

:

xxv.

two appear

to have carried general conviction (in particular, xxiii.

two

1);

now withdrawn,

are

—

and

3

iii.

xxv. 14, the latter in favour of (Tucker).

In the a

first

edition, moreover, I bracketed, in

number

certain

of

passages,

words which

I

regarded as glosses that had crept into the text, viz.

I

:

—

now

iii.

1

18

vi.

:

xvii.

:

1

xvii.

:

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