Tate Plato's Political Philosophy
Tate Plato's Political Philosophy
Tate Plato's Political Philosophy
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242 T H E CLASSICAL REVIEW
notes the oddity, in the first place, of the translations (fr. 40: 'Much learning
teaches not understanding' appears as 'Who knows many things need not have
many brains'); secondly, of the interpretation of the text (this fragment is an
attack on 'the more empirically minded scientists'); and, thirdly, of the
treatment of the historical background (the 'scientists' in question comprise
'Hesiod and Pythagoras and also Xenophanes').
J. TATE
PLUTARCH'S LIVES
Plutarchi Vitae Parallelae: recognoverunt Cl. Lindskog et K. Ziegler.
Vol. i, fasc. 1 iterum recensuit K. ZIEGLER. Pp. xiv+423. Leipzig:
Teubner, 1957. Cloth, DM. 19.20.
LINDSKOG'S text of the Lives contained in this volume {Theseus, Romulus;
Solon, Publicola; Themistocles, Camillus; Aristides, Cato Maior; Cimon, Lucullus) was
published in 1914 and is no longer available. Ziegler's revision brings no new
manuscript evidence, but few pages are without a place or two in which his
decision differs from his predecessor's. These differences are mostly due to
greater readiness to emend, combined with a rather greater respect for UMA
when they agree against the Seitenstettensis, for which Lindskog had, as
Ziegler now thinks, too much regard. A separate discussion of this problem is
promised.
The result here is a text with a slightly fuller (still very concise) apparatus,
with the merit of forcing on one's attention the usefulness of the way in which
Reiske and Corais used to go about Plutarch, questioning the tradition at
every point in the light of sense and usage, and being ready to emend—a way
which the editor of Plutarch must still, though cautiously, follow. Ziegler's
immense experience and skill have made useful gleanings (I single out p. 53,
26 (if) (avTasy eloeXdetv) and the numerous suggestions which he makes but
does not promote from the apparatus to the text deserve careful attention.
This is not to say that there are not some which appear gratuitous—just as
there are passages still in need of treatment. The important point is that this is
a better edition for a reader of inquiring mind than was Lindskog's.
Of passages still needing change, I select only two. At p. 95, 26 (Solon, 12.
11) Ziegler, like Lindskog, retains KeXevaai . . . irpoenrdjv, which is surely
ungrammatical. Wilamowitz's eKeXevcre is one obvious correction: another is
•npoeivovO' <Ls. P. 198, 18 ff. (Camillus 2. 6): this sentence is lame, and one
should read either OP Se TTpooxtP0- (cf- Kiihner-Gerth, § 369, for attractions
of this kind) or noXXovs <Se> /ecu in 1. 21.
The number of misprints and small oversights in the volume is considerable.
In the Preface and list of sigla we find y as the symbol used for the UMA
group: in the apparatus this becomes Y. There is a similar confusion between
S' and Sz (e.g. p. 84, first line of apparatus). Corrections which should be
made include the following. P. 13, 26 note: read [fte/jo?]. P. 16, 26: e<j>9acrev.
P. 18, 7: dpyvpovv. P. 20, 12: <Ls. P. 68, 7 note: 56, 4. P. 101, 29: fr. 23, 16 d.
P. 112, 12 : fjLerot.K^ofj,evois. P. 172, 7 : Ilepmris (for Sipgrjs). P . 230, 21 : Tedap-
prjKOTas. P. 245, 8 - 9 : Kara<f>opds. P . 305, 21 : rod. P . 318, 1 3 :
adai (for airohia-, a false form taken over from Lindskog).
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