Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 5.1

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 Plin. 16. 188. ² cf. 3. 5. 1.
2. ³ δυσπεριαιρετός conj. Sch.; δυσπερικάθαρτος Ald.
3. ¹ cf. 3. 5. 1. ² add. Sch.
4. 3 ηγός τε conj. Scal.; πηγός τε U; φηγόσιν τε V; πηγόσιν τε Mld.
5. ⁴ κατορύττεται conj. Sch. from G; ὀρύττεται Ald. cf. 5. 4. 3 5. 7. 5. PIin. 16. 189.
6. 1 αἱ add. Sch.
7. ³ ὑπολοπῶσιν conj. Sch.; εἰ πέλειν εἰσι U; ὐπελεινεισιν MV: ὑπελινῶσιν Ald.
8. ³ ταύτην conj. St.; καὶ τὴν Ald. H.
9. 1 τὸ μλὲ γὰρ ἐνδ. corj. St. from G; ἐνδ. γὰρ Ald.
10. 2 cf. 3. 9. 7.
11. 3. 9. 7, μόνον οὐ διαφανεῖς, whence it appears that the epithet refers to colour.
12. 4 Phn. 16. 195. 5 i.e. the annual rings. cf.1. 5. 2; 5. 5. 3.
13. 6 cf. Hom. Od. 12. 172.
14. 7 κατασπῶσιν conj. W.; κατὰ πᾶσιν UΜ V; κατὰ πάντα Ald.
15. 8 cf. Plin. l.c. 9 cf. 1. 2
16. 10 ἐμφανεστάτας conj. W. ; εὐγενεστάτας Ald.
17. 1¹ δὲ conj. Sch.: καὶ U Ald H.
18. 1 Plin. l.c.
19. ² The meaning of ‘four-cleft etc. seems to be this: