Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 3.18

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 Lit. grape-stone.
2. ² 1 omit ἡ before διαφορά with Sch.
3. ¹ cf. 1. 9. 4; 3. 18. 12; C.P. 1. 10. 7.
4. ² Some words are missing, which described various forms of παλίουρος, alluded to in πάντα ταῦτα (Sch.). cf. 4. 3. 3 where an African παλίουρος is descnbed.
5. 3 καθαπερεὶ φύλλῳ conj. W., cf. 3. 11. 2; καθάπερ τὸ φύλλον UMV.
6. 1 Plin. 13. 55: 24. 91.
7. 2 στοιχεῖν: cf. 3. 5. 3: Plin. 13. 55.
8. ³ Βοτρυῶδες conj. W ; βοτρυηδόν U; βοτρυδόν Aid.
9. ⁴ ὁ ῥοῦς masc. cf. Diosc. 1. 108.
10. ¹ cf. Theocr. 11. 46. Plin. 16. 145 foll.
11. ³ i. e. is the most ‘distinct’ of the ivies.
12. 4 cf. 1. 10. 1; Diosc. 2. 179.
13. 5 i.e. as an explanation of the barrenness of helix.
14. 6 i.e. and so becomes fertile.
15. 7 διατείνονται : cf. C. P. 4. 6. 1. διατ. τῳ . . . apparently = “insist on the view that,” . . . but the dative is strange The sentence, which is highly elliptical, is freely emended by most editors.
16. ¹ ταξιφυλλοτέρα conj. W. from Plin. 16. 149, folia in ordinem digesto ; μακροφυλλοτέρα MSS. cf. 1. 10 8.
17. ² κατακεκαμμένη conj. W.; κατακεκαυμένη UAld.; κατακεκαμ- μένους conj. Seh.
18. 3 κιττώδους MSS.; ποώδους conj. St. ⁴ cf. C.P. 1. 16. 4.
19. ¹ σμῖλαξ: ? μῖλαξ W. cf. 1. 10. 5: Plin. 16. 153—155.
20. 2 ἐπαλλόκαυλον conj. Sch.; ἐπαυλόκαυλον V. cf. 3. 18. 10.
21. 3 καυλὸς conj. R. Const.; καρπὸς UMVAld.
22. 4 τυληρόν conj. W.; νοτηρόν Ald. U (corrected).
23. 5 ταύτην; cf. τὸ θυλακῶδες τοῦτο, 3. 7. 3. Is the pronoun
24. ¹ Presumably σ. ὁ ἐδώδιμος. See Index.
25. ² παρεγγίζει δ᾿ ὁ παραθριγκισμὸς Ι conj., cf. παραθριγκίζουσι below; παρωγγύζει δὲ παραθρινακίζει δὲ ὡς U; παραγγίζει δὲ παραθρηνακίζει δὲ ὡς MV; παραθριγκίζει δὲ ὡς conj. W.