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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
So run two lines on the title-page of Marcianus 250 (X: xi+xiv cent.). Whether the Moralia still benefit the character or no, they may still serve to sharpen the wits; for in spite of the work of Meziriac, Reiske, and Wyttenbach, Madvig, Bernardakis, and Wilamowitz, to mention only some of those who have brought learning and sagacity to the task of emendation, there are still hundreds of passages which cry halt to the reader and challenge him to divine what Plutarch wrote.
page 110 note 1 For convenience I give the titles in their familiar Latin dress.
page 111 note 1 I have already published this in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1931, p. 7.
page 112 note 1 e.g. 1045 F κα⋯ (τ⋯) ὡς ἔτυχεν ⋯πικλῖνον τ⋯ς σιανο⋯ας [τ⋯] ἄνευ π⋯οης αἰτ⋯ας. At 1039 D Meziriac made the necessary addition of οὖν after πολ λαχο⋯ μ⋯ν the corrector X3 had already tried to do this but had placed the οὖν after the μ⋯ν of the previous sentence, where it is senseless.
page 114 note 1 I have my own collations of XFα (in part) βγΕ Vat. reg. 80 Bgavz.
page 115 note 1 ‘fere abundans’, Wyttenbach, Index, s.v.
page 115 note 2 For σαϕ⋯ς cf. Schol, . Iliad, 8Google Scholar. 149.
