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Page 727 - He seems to have been very learned and very wicked — a great scholar and a consummate hypocrite — not only neglecting occasions of doing good, but perverting the finest talents to the worst purposes.
Page 728 - Greek lexicon, in which the greater part of the alphabet is complete. The various MSS of this Lexicon, in different libraries on the continent, are mere transcripts from each other, and originally from one, venerable for its antiquity, which was formerly in the possession of the celebrated Thomas Gale, and which is now deposited in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge. This MS.
Page 728 - But our present busines- is with another work of Photius, his celebrated and valuable Lexicon, which, imperfect and mutilated as it is, is more valuable to the critical scholar, than ten Myriobibla. It is well known to the learned, that the various MSS. of this Lexicon, in different libraries on the Continent, are mere transcripts from each other, and originally from one, venerable for...
Page 730 - Journal, the wishes of the literary world with respect to it. But while we are anxiously looking for its appearance, lo ! Photius is put into our hands, — but not the Photius of our acquaintance, nor the Photius of Richard Porson, but the Photius of Godfrey Hermann ; and, had the editor's name not been affixed, we should have been at no loss to determine at whose door it should be laid, since it bears many marks of that precipitancy and want of concoction which so often distinguish the productions...
Page 728 - ... transcript from the author's copy. It is written in various hands. The compendia, which are used in some parts of it, are extremely difficult to decipher, though, on the whole, they are less so than the contractions which occur in many MSS. and particularly those in the library of St. Germain. A copy of this Lexicon, at Florence, was transcribed about the end of the sixteenth century, by Richard Thomson, of Oxford, who probably intended to publish it. (See Scaliger Epist. p. 503, printed 1715.)...
Page 737 - Journal than should be devoted to one of the tribe of grammarians ; but we must still detain our readers, while we briefly examine the validity of Mr Hermann's excuse for publishing an unconnected text, viz. that 'the errors are such as can only mislead the most stupid of mankind.
Page 732 - ceu fonte perenni, ' later Grammarians derived most of their explanations of the scenic phrases of the Greeks. These Dramatic Lexicons are unfortunately lo.st ; but there is, in the National Library of Paris, a MS. which seems to be an Epitome of one of them, under the title of "AAAO; 'AAip«'/3»jT85.
Page 729 - ... completed another transcript in his own exquisite hand-writing. Mr. Person's copy of the Codex Galeanus is said to be among the papers of that incomparable scholar, which are preserved by the learned society of which he was long a distinguished ornament. But whilst the publication of it was anxiously expected and delayed, an edition appeared at Leipsic in 1808, by Godfrey Hermann, from two MSS., both of...
Page 729 - says Mr Hermann, ' fore, qui neque aliter quam ex ' ipso Codice Galeano, edi debuisse censerent. ' We apprehend that this inuendo is levelled at the late Professor Porson, who, it is well known, had transcribed and corrected this valuable Lexicon for the press ; and when, unfortunately, his copy had been consumed by...
Page 737 - Hermann's excuse for publishing an unconnected text, viz. that 'the errors are such as can only mislead the most stupid of mankind.' Of many, indeed, this may truly be said. Nothing, surely, but an undue partiality for his own name, could have induced the learned editor to print rE(/u.àv, vyaloç nirca. xca'AvaxQftov, xcu'A(¡io-io(pávt¡;. instead of 'Есца, íj n. Dr Schleusner's correction of "Есрад is wrong. 'ifiv — ¿яо той...
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| Title | Φωτιου του πατριαρχου Λεξεων συναγωγη |
| Author | Saint Photius I (Patriarch of Constantinople) |
| Publisher | C.H.F. Hartmanni, 1823 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 750 pages |
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