Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 9.11

ed. Arthur Hort

View: By Section

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

Sponsored by Harvard College Library.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Notes on the current edition

Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ From this phrase ἔκτομον came to be used as a synonym for‘black hellebore.’ cf. Plin. 25. 47; Diosc. 4. 149; Hesych. and Galen, Lex. Hipp. s. v.
2. ² 9. 9. 2. 3 Plin. 25 32; 26. 139.
3. 4 μικρὰν conj. H. from Plin. 25. 32. radix varra; μακρὰν U* Ald.
4. ¹ κεφαλαίας conj. Sch.; κεφαλῆς Ald.
5. 2 τῶν ἑλκῶν conj. Sch.; τῶν δὲ ἑλκώδῶν (sic) U*; τῶν ἑλκωδῶν Ald. H. cf. § 3.
6. 3 Plin. 25. 32: Diosc. 3. 48.
7. 4 δίκραν ἢ τρίκραν conj. Sch.; δίκραν ἢ τρίκαν UM; δικρανῆ πικρὰν U*; δικρανῆ ἢ τρικρανῆ Ald.
8. ¹ cf. 7. 15. 4, where a third στρύχνος is mentioned, which is ὁμώνυμος, not συνώνυμος, i.e. which has nothing in common with these two στρύχνοι except the name. of. also 9. 15. 5.
9. ² κρόκου conj. Dalec. from Diosc. 4. 72, καρπὸν. . . κροκί- ζοντα; κόκκου MSS.
10. 3 πυγμὴν μέγα U; πυθμὴν μέγας U*Ald. H.; W. adopts Bod. ’s conjecture σπιθαμὴν μέγα.
11. 4 Plin. 21. 177–179; Diosc. 4. 73.
12. 5 θρύορον Ald.H.; θρυόρον U*; βρυόρον U; βρύορον MmBas.;
13. 1 Plin. 26. 68.
14. ² κόκκινον conj. W.; κόκκος MSS. cf. Plin. l.c. ramis ru- bentibus. ³ Diosc. 4. 164; Plin. 26. 62—65.
15. 4 οὕτς ὡς δεῖ χρ. conj. Sch.; οὕτως ὡς δὴ χρ. U*; οὕτως χρ. Ald