Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 3.12

ed. Arthur Hort

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Enquiry into Plants. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2017.

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ cf. Plin., l.c., and Index.
2. ² μεῖζον δὲ καὶ μανότερον conj. W. from G; μ. δὲ καὶ μανότερα M V U (? μανότερ); μείζων δὲ καὶ μακροτέρα Ald.H.
3. 1 The Ιdaeans are evidently responsible for this statement. T. himself (3. 4. 3) says the fruit is inedible.
4. ² But (1. 11. 4) only certain varieties of the olive are said to have this character: the next statement seems also incon- eistent with 3. 4. 3. Perhaps T. is still reproducing his Idaean authority.
5. ¹ παρασήμως τὴν κέδρον U; π. τὸν κέδρον M; Ald. omits the article; παρασημασίᾳ κέδρου conj W.
6. ² μήτρν conj. Sch.: μᾶλλον UMVAld. Plin., 16. 198, sup- ports μήτραν: he apparently read μήτραν δ᾿ ἡ μὲν ἀ. ἔχει μᾶλλον
7. ¹ ἐλάττω τέ τι conj. W.; ἐλάττω εἰε? UAld.
8. ² W. suggests that some words are missing here, as it does not appear to which kind of μεσπίλη the following descrip- tion belongs; hence various dificulties. See Sch.
9. ³ Probably a lacuna in the text. W. thus supplies the sense : he suggests σικυοειδές for σελινοειδές.
10. ¹ φύλλα . . . στοιχηδὸν conj. W,; φύλλον δ᾿ ἀμφοῖν τὸ μὲν μίσχον μακρὸν ἰνοειδῆ· πεφ. [δὲ] στοιχηδὸν UMVAld.
11. 2 ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτῶν (= ἀπ᾿ ἀλλήλων) conj. Scal.; ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν U : so W,, who however renders inter se.