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Selections from the Attic Orators Selections from the Attic Orators, Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, edited with notes by R. C. Jebb, Litt. D., Camb., [late] Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. Second Edition. London: Macmillan. 1888.
J. E. Sandys
The Classical Review / Volume 3 / Issue 09 / November 1889, pp 406 - 408 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00195940, Published online: 27 October 2009
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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 128.122.253.228 on 29 Apr 2015 406 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. his conclusions, and it will repay any reader torical style, alien to that of Xenophon, (2) its to study them for himself. The fifth chapter affected and poetical diction, (3) its false discusses the Memorabilia. Here Dr. Hart- statements, (4) direct borrowing from the mann is a thorough-going follower of Schenkl HeUenica of passages which the writer has and Krohn, who used the knife with such either tried to make more definite and astonishing freedom. True he controverts particular, «r has spoilt by failing to under- in nine cases the excisions .or objections stand, or has deliberately changed in order of Schenkl, but he makes up for that to do greater honour to Agesilaus, (5) state- by many more of his own. He believes ments and observations not suited to the in an interpolator impudentissimus, who, time at which Xenophon must have com- editing the treatise after Xenophon's death, posed the piece, if he had done so. To this foisted in the parts which he condemns array of historical arguments are added as foolish or ill-written or false. This certain critical difficulties, and the use of was rendered all the more easy as the certain verba locutionesque insolentiora aut treatise, even as Xenophon wrote it, was suspecta. The upshot of it all is to show not consecutive, but had been continually that the Agesilaus is by a young declaimer added to during the author's life. The of the School of Isocrates. Dr. Hartmann sixth chapter contains emendations on the however feels that the very number of the text of the Memorabilia left after these arguments makes it the less certain that a excisions. The seventh chapter discusses reader will be convinced, for the detection the Oeconomicus. He rejects the suggestion of a weak point in any one shakes his confi- that it ever formed, or was intended to form, dence in all He appeals therefore finally to part of the Memorabilia, and defends his the finer sense of readers... qui enim non position at great length and with full SENTIT Agesilaum a Xenophonte non esse illustration. The eight chapter (pp. 188- scriptvm, eum nullis convinces argumentis. 213) again contains emendations on particu- The twelfth and last chapter (pp. 276-405) lar passages of the Oeconomicus. The ninth is devoted to criticisms and emendations of chapter discusses the old question of the the HeUenica. They are full both of the connexion between the Convivium of Xeno- strength and weakness of the critic; and, phon and that of Plato. He confesses that while they will often carry conviction, they the arguments which he here uses are not will also sometimes call forth opposition, new; and it will be enough to say that his and occasionally provoke a smile. It may position is that Plato's Convivium was pub- be safely said, however, that the book as a lished after that of Xenophon and was in- whole contains a mass of criticism on tended to refute and ridicule the presentment Xenophon of first-rate value. It certainly of Socrates contained in the latter's work. is entertaining, and has scarcely a dull page The tenth chapter follows (pp. 235-246) from end to end. And whether a reader with emendations on the text of the Conviv- agrees or disagrees with the author, he will ium. In the eleventh chapter—which has undoubtedly close the book with awakened the motto rts OXKTI TOV Oavovr airutTaveiv,—he interest in and a fuller knowledge of Xeno- restates the case against the genuineness of phon. the Agesilaus. This he rests on (1) its rhe- E. S. SHUCKBUEGH.
SELECTIONS FROM THE ATTIC ORATORS.
Selections from the Attic Orators, Antiphon, Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, has Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, edited now been reprinted in a handy form that will with notes by R. C. JEBB, Litt. D., Camb., make it readily accessible to a still larger [late] Professor of Greek in the University number of students. It is superfluous at of Glasgow. Second Edition. London : the present date to praise the taste and Macmillan. 1888. judgment which have here been applied to the difficult task of selecting adequately TEACHERS of Greek have good reason for representative specimens of the earlier Attic rejoicing that a book, which has been Orators, or to dwell on the scrupulous pains before the public for the last nine years as a which have been bestowed on the explanatory companion volume ranging in size with the as well as the critical notes. In the new editor's brilliant and attractive work on the edition the latter, instead of being placed THE CLASSICAL .REVIEW. 407 apart before the text, are far more con- Oavovrmv. Vide Thuc. ii. 52.' In Dob- veniently printed at the foot of the page, spn's Oratores Attici, the same emendation is while the explanatory notes remain as ascribed to the French editor, Auger; but, before at the end of the book. as I have shown, it was an English scholar The few suggestions here offered for the who was the first to suggest it in a timid and removal of some misprints and other trifling tentative way, leaving Professor Jebb to inaccuracies will be almost entirely confined propose it afresh and to print it with confi- to the speech of Lysias on behalf of Manti- dence as part of the text.—In the explana- theus (Or. 16), that of Isaeus on the estate tory note on § 13, the Athenian expedition of Dicaeogenes (Or. 5), and the Aegineticus for the relief of Haliartus is by a misprint of Isocrates (Or. 19). attributed to B.C. 325, instead of 395 which In the explanatory note on Lysias 16§7, ovre is correctly printed in the former edition. Karaaraxnv irapa\a./36vTa, Prof. Jebb rightlAgainy , in the note on § 19 the apt quotation states that 'Bake reads Kara^aXovra, which iiri
LYSIAS, SELECT ORATIONS.
Ausgewd'Mte Reden des Lysias, erJdart von R. which have already been suggested by Mark- RAUCHENSTEIN, besorgt von KAEL FUHR. land and Reiske. In the preface to the Tenth ed. part 1 containing Or. 12, 13, 25, ninth he complains that Cobet, in his 16 and 31. "Weidmann, Berlin. 1889. 1 m. second edition of 1882, had entirely neglected 50 pf. all that had been done for the textual criticism of the author during the thirty THE first edition of this excellent school-book years that had elapsed since the first edition was published in 1848 when the editor was of Scheibe. Some allowance may perhaps be fifty years of age. He lived thirty years made for a veteran scholar who re-edits a longer, and during that time saw his work text of Lysias when on the verge of seventy, go through six editions, all of them carefully and who shortly after that time, as I well revised by himself. I have before me a copy remember observing during a visit to Leyden of the fifth edition which he was good enough in 1885, found himself compelled to place on to send me in 1869, with a few lines of the university screens the following notice kindly greeting written in a clear though in lieu of the ordinary announcement of a somewhat tremulous hand, when he was course of lectures : Professor Cobet, propter already over seventy. For fifty-five years in aetatem immunis, commilitonum studio, quan- all, he was, in various capacities, on the staff tum poterit adiuvabit. A similar excuse can of the school at Aarau in Switzerland ; and hardly be pleaded on behalf of the editor of since his death in 1879, three further editions the English edition of select speeches of of his work have been seen through the Lysias, founded on Rauchenstein's first press by a thoroughly competent scholar, edition, deren Herausgeber...(as Fuhr com- Karl Fuhr of Elberfeld. plains) tnit der neueren Litteratur ebenfaUs In the preface to the eighth and tenth ganz unbekannt ist. editions, Fuhr urges the necessity for a new As to the much disputed date of the birth critical edition of the whole of Lysias, includ- of Lysias, the ten successive editions of ing a complete record of all the conjectural Rauchenstein's book reflect the changes of emendations, and ascribing each to its first opinion that have prevailed during the last proposer. Many emendations, as he justly forty years. Thus the first and second observes, are now-a-days put forward as new accept 459, the third and fourth 432, the