Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 9.8

ed. Arthur Hort

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

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

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ cf. C.P. 6. 14. 8; 6. 18. 12; Plin. 21. 40.
2. ² See Index App. (25).
3. ¹ From this point to 9. 19. 4, γίνεσθαι, the text is repeated in U, with considerable variations, as a tenth book. Ald. also repeats the first few lines of this passage (down to end of § 1) as a fragment of a tenth book. The two Medicean MSS also repeat 9. 8. 1, τῶν δὲ ῥιζῶν, down to 9. 10. 3, βέλτιστοι δὲ καὶ οἷς, as part of a tenth book. The ‘tenth book’ readings in each case are distinguished by a *.
4. ²ῥιζῶν: ῥίζα signifies a medicinal plant in general (cf. ῥιζότομοι) as well as ‘root’; the double sense makes transla- tion of this section awkward: I print it ‘root’ where it has the wider sense.
5. ¹ cf. Diosc. 2. 136; Plin. 20. 58.
6. 2 cf. Dinosc. 3. 7.
7. 3 ῥᾴω conj. Sch.: ῥαιο U; ῥᾳδίως M*Ald.
8. ¹ ἔτι. δὲ ὅσα conj. Sch. from G; ἔτι δ᾿ ὡς U*; ἔτι δὲ ὡς Ald. H; ἐστι δὲ ὡς M*.
9. ¹ Plin. 25 69 adds that this plant was therefore also called τρίορχις. cf. Diose 4. 162.
10. ² καὶ . . . αἰτίας U*M*; ? καὶ ἄλλα δὲ τοιαῦτα W.
11. 3 Plin. 25. 30 and 31.