Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta by William J. Slater

By William J. Slater

From the introduction:
"It is time," wrote Wilamowitz in 1907, "that Nauck's variation of Aristophanes
of Byzantium used to be redone," and lots of occasions during the
last few years i've got had reason to ask yourself on the knowledge and discretion
of these students who grew to become a deaf ear to his injunction. now not least, it is
a humiliating adventure to aim to keep on with after the younger Nauck, whose
erudition and precision must have made it most unlikely for someone to
improve on his version of 1848. in lots of methods this variation isn't what I,
let on my own Wilamowitz, may have wanted. the distinction of Erbse's edition
of the Homeric scholia have made me decrease the Homeric part to little
more than an index locorum with precis, although i've got attempted to make
it valuable by means of together with all attainable move references to the lexical works
of Aristophanes. during the statement is short, and cognoscenti will
readily enhance on it; however the literature on a gloss similar to proxenos would
by itself now fill a quantity, and a dialogue of the facts for deer
species in early Greece a ways exceeds the competence of this author. Nonetheless
I have commented on these glosses the place it looked as if it would me that
Aristophanes was once facing a philological challenge identified to his contemporaries;
and to this finish i've got taken a few care to collect relevant
testimonia, due to the fact that i feel that with no such support historic glosses can
mislead instead of inform.
The glosses and testimonia are given in Latin, grown rusty via years
of instructing classical civilization, however the remark is in English, for the
simple cause that i locate myself not able to discuss a few issues like
fallow-deer with enough readability in Latin. back notwithstanding i've got made an
honest attempt to acquire all pertinent books, the reader should still comprehend that I
have now not had entry conveniently to an enormous library, in order that i discovered it impossible
to payment all my citations of the D scholia to Homer, which whilst a new
edition is out there needs to someday be in comparison with Aristophanes.