Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 4.11

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 i.e. we have gone beyond the list of typical plants of Orchomenus given 4. 10. 1, because we have found others of which much the same may be said.
2. 2 cf. 4. 10. 2.
3. ³ αὐτὴ: cf. 4. 10. 3 n.
4. ¹ κώμυσι: lit ‘bundles.’
5. ² δυ᾿ ἔτη conj. W.; διετῆ UM V Ald.
6. ³ B. c. 338.
7. ¹ βομβυκίαν. In one kind of pipe the performer blew, not directly on to the ‘reed,’ but into a cap in which it was enclosed ; this cap, from the resemblance in shape to a cocoon, was called βόμβυξ.
8. ² εἶναι add. W.
9. 3 Plin. 16. 169–172 4 September.
10. 5 i.e. between the free end of the vibrating ‘tongue and
11. ¹ κατασπάσματα: lit. ‘convulsions’; i.e. the strong vibra- tions of a ‘tongue,’ the free end of which is kept away from the body or ‘lay’ of the mouthpiece. Such a ‘reed’ would have the effect of giving to the pipes a fuller and louder tone.
12. ² i.e. so as to make a closed end.
13. 1 cf. Plut. Sulla, 20.
14. 2 i.e. the so-called ‘Lake’ Copaïs.
15. 3 καὶ add. W.