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In Praise of Schraderiana 1)

In Praise of Schraderiana 1) 226 servent nos Rois: dans un passage fameux des Pensdes de Pascal publiees "dans leur texte authentique" (!) par Ernest Havet Jusqu'au jour ou Zacharie Tourneur a dechiffre enfin le vrai texte: ,,Ces troupes armées qui n'ont de mains et de force que pour eux ...." 2). BOURG-LA REINE (Seine), Rue Candelot 24. i ) Pascal, Pensdes, 6d. Ernest Havet, 2e 6d. (1866), p. 33-34 et comm. p. 46. 2) Pascal, Edit. de Cluny, ( Ig38), p. 18: cit6 par Frank Olivier, En relisant Lucrgce, dans Museum Helveticum, 10 (1953) p. 62. IN PRAISE OF SCHRADERIANA 1) Housman (Manilius I, p. xx) has written: 'In the ... year 1783 died Ioannes Schrader, Heinsius dimidiatus, whose conjectures on Manilius are preserved in manuscript among Santen's books (no. 95) at Berlin and are mentioned by Jacob pp. xiii sq. The youth of Berlin and Goettingen might easily be worse employed than in transcribing the notes of Schrader and Withof and giving them to the world after the pattern of Mr E. Hedicke's studia Bentleiana. I suspect that they have forestalled a good many of my own conjectures; but I have abstained from all inquiry after them, in order that the coincidence, if coincidence there be, may weigh the heavier." So now we have a bit more of Schrader and lo, the coincidence weighs heavily indeed. II. 571 bella and IV. 618 jontemque both actually anticipate Housman. II. 380 coeuntibus is one of the moderately few (16, according to Manilius V, p. xviii) which Housman took over from poor Robinson Ellis. [Everyone knows the famous passage (V. 463) : 'hic enim Ellisium largius solito ineptiarum copia exuberantem miseratus deus semel ei emendationem subiecit quam a sagaci critico inuentam credideris.' The underscoring is entirely mine.] Another conjecture, II. 672, Pingr6's, Housman mentions without repugnance; and a fifth he accepts (II. 137). There remains only V. 23 to be considered. It seems very good indeed; and on the whole superior to the reading of cod. Venetus which Housman printed. Schrader's score on the six Manilius conjectures Clausen has resurrected is close to 100%. But what of the Berlin MS ? May we persuade Mr Clausen, after this most excellent and learned labor, to approach that arsenal of hidden treasure ? For the Valerius readings he has published are all of them superb, the Seneca is good durable stuff, and the Priapea scarcely less so. Berkeley, University of California. W. C. HELMBOLD i) Mnem. IV 8 (1955), 49 fi. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

In Praise of Schraderiana 1)

Helmbold, W.C.
Mnemosyne , Volume 8 (1): 226 – Jan 1, 1955
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© 1955 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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226 servent nos Rois: dans un passage fameux des Pensdes de Pascal publiees "dans leur texte authentique" (!) par Ernest Havet Jusqu'au jour ou Zacharie Tourneur a dechiffre enfin le vrai texte: ,,Ces troupes armées qui n'ont de mains et de force que pour eux ...." 2). BOURG-LA REINE (Seine), Rue Candelot 24. i ) Pascal, Pensdes, 6d. Ernest Havet, 2e 6d. (1866), p. 33-34 et comm. p. 46. 2) Pascal, Edit. de Cluny, ( Ig38), p. 18: cit6 par Frank Olivier, En relisant Lucrgce, dans Museum Helveticum, 10 (1953) p. 62. IN PRAISE OF SCHRADERIANA 1) Housman (Manilius I, p. xx) has written: 'In the ... year 1783 died Ioannes Schrader, Heinsius dimidiatus, whose conjectures on Manilius are preserved in manuscript among Santen's books (no. 95) at Berlin and are mentioned by Jacob pp. xiii sq. The youth of Berlin and Goettingen might easily be worse employed than in transcribing the notes of Schrader and Withof and giving them to the world after the pattern of Mr E. Hedicke's studia Bentleiana. I suspect that they have forestalled a good many of my own conjectures; but I have abstained from all inquiry after them, in order that the coincidence, if coincidence there be, may weigh the heavier." So now we have a bit more of Schrader and lo, the coincidence weighs heavily indeed. II. 571 bella and IV. 618 jontemque both actually anticipate Housman. II. 380 coeuntibus is one of the moderately few (16, according to Manilius V, p. xviii) which Housman took over from poor Robinson Ellis. [Everyone knows the famous passage (V. 463) : 'hic enim Ellisium largius solito ineptiarum copia exuberantem miseratus deus semel ei emendationem subiecit quam a sagaci critico inuentam credideris.' The underscoring is entirely mine.] Another conjecture, II. 672, Pingr6's, Housman mentions without repugnance; and a fifth he accepts (II. 137). There remains only V. 23 to be considered. It seems very good indeed; and on the whole superior to the reading of cod. Venetus which Housman printed. Schrader's score on the six Manilius conjectures Clausen has resurrected is close to 100%. But what of the Berlin MS ? May we persuade Mr Clausen, after this most excellent and learned labor, to approach that arsenal of hidden treasure ? For the Valerius readings he has published are all of them superb, the Seneca is good durable stuff, and the Priapea scarcely less so. Berkeley, University of California. W. C. HELMBOLD i) Mnem. IV 8 (1955), 49 fi.

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