Aristotle's Poetics

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THE

POETICS, OF ARISTOTLE

WITH CRITIOAL NOTES AND a TRANSLATION

8, I. UUTCHER

Lonvon

MACMILLAN AND CO, Lucan

1902
Ge 112,383.39
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDTTION

‘Tue following Teat wi TYwuslation of the Pastiae
form part uf the volume entitled Avistotl’s Theory
of Portry coud Kine Art, second elton (Baveillan
‘and Co,, 1898}. In this edition the Critical Noten
fam enlarged, wud use ‘Teanalacion hea been eate-
folly vised. ‘Vhe inproveruunts in the Translation
ave largely ue to the inealuabie ai Ihave rossived
from my ftiena ans! cclleazae, Profesor W. R,
Harti, To him I would exprese my saxmost
thanks, and also to another fiéend, Professor
‘Tymell, who has sooat Kindly vend through the
prof-eboee, and talked over aud clueldated
vasiuus queslious of interpretation wud exiticiam,
In making use af che mam of critical material
which hag appeared in reoent yours, empecially in
Germany, Ihave found it wecessary to observe
atrit principle of selection, my ain till being.
fo koxp the notes within Himited enmpasr. ‘Thay
are wat intended to form a camplece Appavatier
Critions, still loss oo slo duty for 4 commentary.

T tual, however, chat uo variant or eoujesiural
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emeadstion of emch inporanee tw been over
Tooked,

Th tho fit edition 1 admitesd into the text
coujestarel emendatins of my own in the flowing
aneages is, 8; ani 1: aniv. 10
aed: wv, Hts 34. 16. Of these, one ot beo
appear to have caried enc couvition (in
particular, xz, 1)? two ae now withdramn

3 and sav. 14, the lator in favonr of sine
(Tacks)

Tn the fot edition, morcoves, 1 bracketed, in
certain nnmber of pemages, words which I
regarded as glosea thet bad crept into the taxi

Le vid: avi, t: avi 8. In vid8
Tow give Gompin’s corection viv Keun, for
the bracketed words nie j2r adyen of the MBS,,
aud i xvii 8 Dywaters conjecture fu eins for
[rms aint)

‘Thorn remsing u cajecre which T proviouly
relegntod to the noter, bat which now
tke into the text with some confidence, Tt
haa bad the good fortune to win the approval of
tang echolan, including tho dietngniohed names
of Profewor Sowmint and Profesor Tyzll
relat 10 ob (ebro MSS) rb riglore twinara fm
ix 5. 1451 b 13, where the Arabic hao “pemce
not given at rindom’ For the copyist's anor
hin, 2 1481 4 96, whete AP hat ofro, though
8 rightly appease in the ‘apographa': and for
a rimilar omission of ob in A af vi. 12, 1480 9-99,
ov mujer 8 Ye rie mpaypdlas Soyer, the indispensable
ruogativa being aided in ‘apograyla” aed foual
in the Arabia. ‘The emendation aot only gives #
atuzal instead of & strsined eense to the wards
suxivra Inuars, bur also fits in Vetter with
the geunral context, as I have arguett io Avistull's
Theory of Povtry, ec0, (08, $ pp. 375 3).

Auother conjosluse of my oma I bave veulure
to admit inin the tact, Im the mnch disputed
B, L450 12, Tread sonar dp edeete
i atriby bs eines of the MSS, follow.
ing the goiduace uf Diely aud of the Arabia 1
reqund obe OMdyos adréw as 2 glass which diaplaced
part of the original prsae (sen Cricieal Notes), Aw
a panel cage T have adduced Pet i, 1, 1384 0
12, wher aii de cee, the sending ia the
margin of AY, ought, I caink, to be wubstuuted im
the text for che waupted reading Xo ‘The
word dijon is a natural gloss an ot
brat not #0 ote sy emely cm sor.

Tn owe orher difficule passages the Rhevorie
may again be smmivned ty our aid. Tn xvi. 1
E455 0 27 L bave {ar in the frst elition) bracketed
‘ie Granjy, the chjerr to be supplied with AAdstaver
Dring, an T take it, the poet, nat the andienes.
‘This T have uow ilustrated by waullec gloss of
4 procisuly simile kind iu Abe. i, 2. ABH a

where Rowisousis re [rade depeants] has Jorg heen
recoguined an, the trae reading, the smppresed
ahject bang not the audience but the thetrisians.
Ones mar, in xxiv. 9. 1460 a 23, where At
aves the mosoingles dar 8, Tread as in the
frat edition) sia” ob following the xaviser of
This reading, which wan anoepted long ago by
“Fett, has been stoangaly sob aide by the chie!
auodern editors, who sither adopt « variant Ne
8% of rowrt 10 conjechare, with the reauls tha,
‘porta: a the end of the seateove ia freed inte
imponcble moavings. A gumage in the Metric,
£2, 1967 017 &, appears to mo to determine the
question eoncoaively im favour of aa" efi.
dotaon «. mperbeine, The passage runs th
ir yp § 10 rebrar rpion ebb deb Maw: ards
Se reve parvo § depots, olen Bre Snpus
avejervgr dye wer fn
tp velenees BB evebeles 18"Onipm wh
Be spm@avaepseroes dp wire. The general
‘dea in lonely pall tour pannge ofthe Fotis,
and the expresion of it similar evan to the word
884 (whore the baze of aight have heen expected)
in the duplicated peas wif? 8 Daye, oft
sperdcos, Ont Sficlty ait senainn, ‘Tho anh
jet 10 com yeotdne omitted. 'To suyply it
in Chooght ia wot, perbaps, imporble, bub 3 is
exceedingly huss and T hove stcordiagly in this
dion weapted Profesor Tiektcs conjectt,

Fr “Ogre

Badipcy daslvar eat} pean
‘The two conjectures of my ot ubore mentioned
axe based on or corroborated by the Arabic. £
‘ought to add, that in the Text and Critical Notes
generally 1 heve made a freer use thon before of
the Ambie version (concerning which ace p. 4).
But it must be remembered that onty detached
paseagea, lilerlly renderod into Latin in Professor
Margoliouth'a Analects Orientatix (D. Nutt 1887),
fe as yot sovessible 0 shore Tike myself who are
not Andbie eoholara; aud thut even if the whole
were before ut in a literal trauelation, it could uot
safely be used by any one wnfsmilier with Sprise
and Arsbic, wave with the utmost eaution and
suljost to the advioe of experts, Of the precise
value of this vansiou for the eiticiom af the

text, no final estimate ean yet be made. But it
swoma clear thet in awvaral pasagar jt carries ue
Jack tm a Greek original earlier than any of ont
axiating MSS, Two striking instouces may here
Tbe nated —

(1) i 6-7, UAT a 29 Mf, where che Amie
‘confirms Ueburstey’s excision of dromole wud the
insertion of dhivvyos Welore sryyderwsa, scsord-
ing to the brilliant conjecture of Beruays {se6
Margoliouth, Analecta Orientatia, p, 47)

(2) wri 1. 1457 9 86, where for aryarcardy of
the MES. Diels has, by the aid of the aArubie,
restored the woud Megaodré
ingenious snd eonvineing explanation of "Eppeeai-

sauel add moat
x ‘He POETICS oF axISrOrLE

Atasdor (000 ,Griticnl Notes). ‘Thin omandation
introduced for the fost time into the present
dition, Professor Mangolioath tela me that
Diele’resioration of aecegdnoros in this pasage is
confimed by the fiet thac the sane word is
employed in the Arabic of Avitel’s Rictorc
torender eget

Another result of grate importance hay been,
established. In tome tty instances where tho
‘Arabic points to o Greek original diverging from
the text of AY ib confine the reading found ia
‘one or other of the *apographa, or conjectuven
made cither st the time of the Reralannee or in
A mors recent period. Tt wld be too long to
enumerate the pasages here; they will be found
tioted as thay ossut Ta moet of those examples
the reading attend by the Arabic commands oar
rundoubsing asent Tt it, therefore, vo longer
pomible w couoode to A® the unique axthovity
claimed for it by Vabloo

T have consulted Ly tho sidu of Profesor
‘Mazgoiouths book various extciams of it, og. by
Susemibl in Berl, Ph, Wochenschr, 1891, p. 146,
and by Did ia Sizungolor. der Fork, ia
1885, p49, But I have also enjeyod the sper!
Tena of prinace communication with Profesor
Margoliouth himel€ npoa a sumber of difieltes
not dealt with in his Analeta Orientabia, He ls
most generously put his lexming st my disposal
sand furnished me, where i¢ wae possible to do 6,
with a literal trunslution [a some intances the
Arabic is itself obocure, and throws no Tight on
the diffcnlty ; frequently, however, I have ‘cen
‘euabled to indicate in the notes whether the exist-
ing text is supported ly the Arabic or aot,

Tin the following passages | have in this edition
ulopced ementotiona which ane suggested or con
Gmaed by the Atubic, but which did aot find a
place in the ficat edition —

HAAR 18, donee ch
M7680 017, 28 22 Bias omilting at agenda
Sears of the WSS,
ALG TASH 010, [eoeur Bc
ri, 4 1984 24 c= a?
2. MBG B85, code he
HHL. 1457 4 36, [out defo) ‘The Mera tone
Inuon ofthe’ Aimbie ‘and of chin nome
sempooed of signrant and Sigifcan,
oly sot fan Gan i ax sgaicat Jo he
1e5L 1 1487 836 MoorsAurrt (we sor, pi)
se09, [TABU B12 sat dave drovers

1 besitate to add to this list of corroborated
conjectures that of Dacier, now admitted into the

text of xxii 1. 1439 4 21, wat a

Spolay loroplass
is evaBions, for esl 8 éuaias ioraplan ix ewes

tu 0 2 1 seany gies ci BR. sedig fe tat, ree
trict
Tae 8 thew a le td 8
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of the M88, "Tho Arabic, a2 I loam from Profaseor
Margoliouth, i literally “and in go far a he does
rot introduee (or, there do not enter) into there
compositions srosies which resemble. This veraion
appears ta deviate both from our tart and from
Davier’s conjecture, There ix nothing bere to
correspond to cwiéer of the MSS. ; on the other
nud, though ovicus may in some form are
appeared in che Grock original, it is not emy 10
reconstruct the text which the timnelation implise,
Another conjecture, communicated privately to
me by Me. T, BVey, well doseever mention. It
Involves the simpler change of éyeta to vias. The
sense thon i, ‘ond must not be like the ordinary
histories’; the demouste. roseéreve being sunk in
las, 90 that ola derepion af union bacomen by
sttraction, oar fereplan rik somite,

Tnbjoin a fow nther notes derived ftom corre:
spondence with Professor Margoliouth:—

(@) Pussagos whora the Arobic confirms the
reading of the MSS, as againat proposed emenda-
‘ion:

We 14, 1489 9 90, iavrren rg omc dyin
Ambio “hen wo depart trom dialesia com
Dotion’ (The meaning, orev, it obiouly
‘indemtand

Wi 12, 1460 b 18, ab py Myon: Arabi Sof be
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