Constitution of Athens: A Revised Text with an Introduction, Critical and Explanatory Notes, Testimonia and Indices (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sir Edwin S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330018397 ISBN 13: 9781330018392

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Constitution of Athens: A Revised Text With an Introduction, Critical and Explanatory Notes, Testimonia and Indices

In settling the Text I have constantly used the facsimile published by the Trustees of the British Museum; and, on nearly all points of special difficulty, I have also endeavoured to form an opinion of my own by consulting the papyrus itself. In the case of passages im perfectly preserved ih the Ms, I have considered it safer to accept Mr Kenyon's testimony as to the exact number of letters still visible, than that of other editors who, without having had the advantage of inspecting the ms, much less of having constant access to it, have not unfrequently indicated letters as actually visible which (at the best) are represented only by the faintest traces in the facsimile on which their texts are confessedly founded. Where the reading is uncertain, or the MS defective, I have freely admitted conjectures that commended them selves to my judgment as sound restorations of the text. My own conjectures, so far as they are here put forward for the first time, are always distinguished by an asterisk whenever they are included in the text; but even of these, several must be regarded as merely provisional and tentative restorations. Others are only suggested in the notes. References to all of them may be readily found in the English Index, under the heading Conjectures.'

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330018397
• ISBN 13: 9781330018392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 391