Excerpt from Bucolici Graeci Theocritvs cum carmina sua collecta non edi disset, singula et in manibus hominum versabantur et in bibliothecarum laterculis recensebantur, quamvis exigua, tamem suo quodque nomine nstructa: hoc est cur etiam nunc in codicibus appellentur idyllia, sicut singula Pindari carmina e'ir; sunt. Plerumque compluria uno volumine fuisse comprehensa, prout scribae libuerit, facile credimus, sed nec demonstrari hoc potest nec momentum facit. Sullana demum ae tate Artemidorus Pseudarist0phaneus, baud ignobilis grammaticus, Bucolicorum syllogam composait glo riaturque hoc facto n epigrammate, quod in prole gomens scholiorum Theocriteorum servatum locum sibi ?agitavit etiam in huins editionis fronte. Nam ad Artemidorum tantum non omnia redeunt quae edrnus. Qui Buco]icorum nomine, licet multis Theo eriti potissimum carminibus parum conveniret, haud inepte usus est, siquidem Moschus Siculus, Aristarchi familiaris, et post cum Bio Smyrnaeus volumina sua bovxou About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |