Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 3.3

ed. Arthur Hort

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

Enquiry into Plants (Greek) (Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Hort, Heinemann, 1916)

Notes on the current edition

Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ ἐν . . . Ἰδαῖα conj. W. (after Sch., who conj. τὰ ἐν); τὰ ἐν κρήτῃ τῇ Ἰδίᾳ U Ald.
2. 2 i. e. it is not meant that a tree which is ‘special’ to Mount Ida (e.g.) occurs only there.
3. 3 περὶ τήν Μακ.? gloss; περί τε τὴν Μακ. MP2Ald.; τι om. P.
4. ¹ δ᾿ ἄλλως conj. Sch. from G; δ᾿ αὖ Ald. ² Plin. 16. 77.
5. 3 i. e. are not always of the poorest quality. ταῦτ᾿ αὖ τινα conj. W.; ταῦτα ουτῶν Ald. H. ⁴ 1. 9. 3.
6. 1 2. 2. 10.
7. 2 cf. 2. It appears that the buds of the poplar were mistaken for fruit (Sch.); cf. Diosc. 1. 81. Later writers perpetuated the error by calling them κόκκοι.
8. 3 τοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ conj. Sch.; τοῦ ἐν τῷ Ἴδῃ U; τοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἴδης MV; ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ Ald.H.
9. ¹ χώρᾳ καὶ Ald.; ἢ καὶ conj. St.
10. ² i.e the ‘males’ are sterile whether they flower or not. καὶ τούτων τὰ μὲν πολλὰ Ι conj.; τούτων τὰ πολλὰ τὰ μὲν Ald.
11. 3 ? i.e. the flowers of the ‘female’ tree.
12. ⁴ i.e. (α) in those trees whose ‘male’ form is sterile, whether it bears flowers or not; (b) in those whose ‘male’