Demosthenis Orationes I-II 9780198721697, 0198721692

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SCRIPTORVM

CLASSICORVM

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OXONIENSIS

OXONI E TYPOGRAPHEO

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DEMOSTHENIS ORATIONES

RECOGNOVIT APPARATV TESTIMONIORVM ORNAVIT ADNOTATIONE CRITICA INSTRVXIT

M. R. DILTS TOMVSI

OXONI E TYPOGRAPHEO

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CLARENDONIANO MMII

OXFORD VNIVllUITY

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Demosthenes. Orationes / Demosthenis ; recognovit apparatu testimoniorum ornavit adnotatione critica instruxit M. R. Dilts. p. cm. - (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis.) Greek text; preface in English. Includes bibliographical references. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek. I. Dilts, Mervin R. II. Title. III. Series PA3949.A2 2001 885'.01-dc21 2001021775 ISBN 0-19-872168-4 I

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PREFACE I.

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HISTORY

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Corpus Demosthenicum includes sixty orations, a letter of Philip, a collection of fifty-six prooemia, and six letters. 1 In the third century BC Callimachus seems to have had a version of this corpus, since, in his 1rlvaKES,he wrongly attributed two orations contained (or. 7) and KaTa. in it to Demosthenes, llEp;, i1AoVV7Juov 2 8£oKplvov (or. 58). In the first century BC, these attributions were questioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who credits Dinarchus as the author of KaTa. 8£oKplvov and notes that llEp'i itAoVV7Juovis Lysianic in style. 3 In Harpocration's Al[ELS Twv SlKa PTJTopwv(second century AD) there are four variant readings attributed to manuscripts associated with an unidentified Atticus: 4 for or. 1. 7 and or. 3. 7 Harpocration (E 28) notes that the THE

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In addition there are fragments from five lost orations, thirtyseven quotations from Greek and Latin grammatical and rhetorical ,ea, yvwµ.oAoylm; see R. Clavaud, works, and seventy a:rro4,8lyµ.a:ro. Demosthene: Lettres et Fragments (Paris: Bude, 1987). 2 Callimachus, ed. R. Pfeiffer, vol. i (Oxford, 1959), frr. 443 and 444. Also mentioned by Callimachus are two orations no longer extant, 'Y7rtp Io.Tvpov and llpos Kp,Tlav (frr. 446 and 445). 3 On or. 58, see D.H. Opuscula 1.311.21 and on or. 7 see 1.157.7. 4 Another reference to manuscripts of Atticus occurs in the subwhere codex F scription of or. 11 (llpos n}v l1runoA,v T,v ,M1t1tov), reads 8,wp8wTaL d1To860 }hn,c,avwv, where d1rois expressed through a compendium resembling ay; see G. Tsereteli, Sokrashcheniya v g,echeskikh rukopisyakh (St Petersburg, 19042 ), 13 and pl. 2; H. Weil (RPh 3 (1879), 13) corrected dTT&K-in F. In addition to Demosthenes, ).ln,,c,ava a.v-rlypa.