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Ex scholiis diligentissimi cujusdam viri (Ἰστέον ὥς τινες τῶν ἔξω φιλοσόφων)
Editors' preface
Ἰστέον ὥς τινες τῶν ἔξω φιλοσόφων, καὶ μάλιστα Πρόκλος, θεωρήμασι πολλάκις τοῦ μακαρίου Διονυσίου κέχρηται, καὶ αὐταῖς δὲ ξηραῖς ταῖς λέξεσι · καὶ ἔστιν ὑπόνοιαν ἐκ τούτου λαβεῖν ὡς οἱ ἐν Ἀθήναις παλαιότεροι τῶν φιλοσόφων, σφετερισάμενοι τὰς αὐτοῦ πραγματείας, ὡς ἐν τῇ παρούσῃ ἀπομνημονεύει βίβλῳ, ἀπέκρυψαν, ἵνα πατέρες αὐτοὶ ὀφθῶσι τῶν θείων αὐτοῦ Λογίων · καὶ κατ' οἰκονομίαν Θεοῦ νῦν ἀνεφάνη ἡ παροῦσα πραγματεία πρὸς ἔλεγχον τῆς αὐτῶν κενοδοξίας καὶ ῥᾳδιουργίας. Καὶ ὅτι σύνηθες
One must know that some of the external philosophers, and especially Proclus, have often made use of the speculations of the blessed Dionysius, and even of the very bare words themselves; and from this one may form a suspicion that the older philosophers at Athens, having appropriated his treatises, as he mentions in the present book, hid them away, so that they themselves might appear to be the fathers of his divine discourses; and by the dispensation of God the present treatise has now come to light for the refutation of their vainglory and fraud. And that it was customary
Editors' notes and page, col. 21
Footnotes
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Editors' prose
Ex scholiis diligentissimi cujusdam viri.
From the scholia of a certain most diligent man.
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Page
- running head: 21 S. MAXIMI PROLOGUS IN OPE
- marginal letters: A οὐδὲν ἀπεικός ·; B ποτε κατ' αὐτοὺς,; C γους ὡς πρὸς; D Ἰστέον ὥς τινες
- old-edition numerals: (none)
- other: full-width Latin subheading above D across cols 21-22 not set (Ex scholiis diligentissimi cujusdam viri.); word split at column end: σύνη-; full-width foot heading VARIÆ LECTIONES ET CORRECTIONES. across cols 21-22
- other: a full-width band stands across cols 21/22 in mid-page: the 0 paragraph(s) above it in col 22 are set here, after the 5 above it in col 21 (reading order, moved on receipt); the band itself (its title lines) is not set by the volunteer page: set it here, at the move, with full_width
- other: the column opens with the end of the previous work (another unit); not set here: the unit begins at Ἰστέον ὥς τινες τῶν ἔξω φιλοσόφων
Editors' notes and page, col. 22
Footnotes
(7) ‹anchor: not visible› · call in col 22
σύνταγμα.
[Variant reading:] "treatise" (σύνταγμα).
(printed under page 29)
(8) ‹anchor: εἰς τὰς ἐμὰς … χεῖρας› · call in col 22
Dionysianum ms. minus recte meo judicio ponit hoc loco ea quae in editione Morellana. praecesserant, ἐπειδὴ δέ τινες, quam proinde hic sequi maluimus.
The Dionysian manuscript puts here, less correctly in my judgement, the passage that comes earlier in Morel's edition, beginning "But since some" (ἐπειδὴ δέ τινες). We have therefore chosen to follow Morel's edition here.
(printed under page 29)
Page
- running head: LOGUS IN OPERA S. DIONYSII. 22
- marginal letters: A a probabilitate alienum,; B quibus nunquam adfuit; C tanquam ab apostolorum; D Sciendum aliquos profanorum
- old-edition numerals: (none)
- other: facing Latin version, not set; full-width Latin subheading above D across cols 21-22 cut off at left edge (diligentissimi cujusdam viri.); full-width foot heading TIONES ET CORRECTIONES. cut off at left edge
- other: the 0 paragraph(s) of this column above the full-width band are set under col 21 (reading order, moved on receipt)
Editors' notes and page, col. 23
Footnotes
(none) <!-- The page foot shown in both images is the author's own text (a Greek glossary of words, Α–Δ, set in two columns with section letters B, C, D), not editors' footnotes. No rule and no note calls are visible. --> (printed under page 30)
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- other: facing Latin version, not set
- running head: 23 APPENDIX AD OPERA S. DIONY[SII] (right part cut off in image)
- marginal letters: A ‹fuisse nostra usurpare› (gutter, beside top line); B ‹Ἀγάμενος› approx. (gutter, beside start of glossary); C ‹Ἀκραιφνὲς›; D ‹Ἄναντες›
- old-edition numerals: (none)
- other: the upper part of col 23 holds only the Latin version of the end of the scholion (from "fuisse nostra usurpare" to "nostra furari"). The Greek continuation after σύνη- is printed in the facing column, col 24 (only its left edge, "θες α… θεῖος… ἐπ' αὐ…", is visible in these images), so it could not be set from these images and remains to be set from col 24.
- other: other: after a rule, a new piece begins across both columns: the title ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ Λ[ΕΞΕΩΝ] / ΚΑΤΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ ΕΜΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΩ[Ν ...], a Greek alphabetical glossary; col 23 carries its entries under Α from Ἀγάμενος to Ἀνιώντων. Outside this boundary; not set.
αὐτοῖς τὰ ἡμέτερα σφετερίζεσθαι, διδάσκει ὁ θεῖος Βασίλειος εἰς τό· Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, ἐπ' αὐτῆς τῆς λέξεως οὑτωσὶ λέγων· « Ταῦτα οἶδα πολλοὺς τῶν ἔξω τοῦ λόγου τῆς ἀληθείας μεγάλα φρονούντων ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ κοσμικῇ, καὶ θαυμάσαντας, καὶ τ⟨ο⟩ῖς ἑαυτῶν συντάγμασιν ἐγκαταλέξαι τολμήσαντας· κλέπτης γὰρ ὁ διάβολος, καὶ τὰ ἡμέτερα ἐκφερομυθῶν πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ ὑποφήτας. » Καὶ οὗτος μὲν οὕτως. Τὰ δὲ Νουμενίου τοῦ Ηυθαγορικοῦ προφανῶς λέγοντος· Τί γάρ ἐστι Πλάτων, ἢ Μωσῆς ἀττικίζων; » οὐδεὶς ἀρνήσασθαι δύναται, οὐχ ἡμετέρου, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἐναντίων ὄντος, ὡς μαρτυρεῖ καὶ Εὐσέβιος ὁ τῶν Παλαιστίνων Καισαρείας καθηγησάμενος, ὅτι οὐ νῦν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας σύνηθες τοῖς ἔξω σοφίας, τὰ ἡμέτερα κλέπτειν.
for them to appropriate what is ours, the divine Basil teaches on "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1), saying in these very words: "These things, I know, many of those outside the word of truth who pride themselves on worldly wisdom have both admired and dared to insert into their own treatises; for the devil is a thief, and divulges what is ours to his own spokesmen." So much for him. As for the words of Numenius the Pythagorean, who says plainly, "For what is Plato but Moses speaking Attic?", no one can deny [them], he being not one of ours but of the adversaries, as Eusebius too, who presided over Caesarea of the Palestinians, bears witness that not only now, but even before the coming of Christ, it was customary for those of the outside wisdom to steal what is ours.
Editors' notes and page, col. 24
Page
- running head: [OP]ERA S. DIONYSII AREOPAGITÆ. 24 (left edge cut in the image)
- marginal letters: A ‹θες αὐτοῖς τὰ ἡμέτερα›; B ‹Ἀντερεῖ, ἀντιλέξει› (glossary, not set); C ‹ρεύει, ἤτοι διαγορεύει› (glossary, not set); D ‹Γανυμένη, εὐφραινομένη› (glossary, not set)
- old-edition numerals: (none)
- other: the column opens with θες, the end of σύνηθες, which col 21 sets whole; it is not repeated here. τ⟨ο⟩ῖς: the omicron is damaged type (prints like ι). The closing » after ἀττικίζων; has no opening « in the print; set as printed.
- other: other: below the rule follows the title ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ ΛΕΞΕΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ ΕΜΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΩΝ ΤΗΔΕ ΤῊ ΒΙΒΛΩ͂ and the alphabetical glossary (Ἀντερεῖ … Δαΐτας, εὐωχίας, ἀρίστας τροφάς), not set per the boundary. The left-hand column on the page images is the facing Latin of the scholion, not set.