Excerpt from Studies in Theognis: Together With a Text of the Poems

In this book I make bold to maintain that Theognis wrote all or nearly all the poems which are extant under his name. The text was added by an afterthought, but it is not superfluous, since in the current editions more than forty lines, and these not the least important for my argument, are banished into an appendix or the obscurity of notes. So far as I know, the only book which leaves these lines in their proper places is the Anthologia Lyrica edited for Teubner by Eduard Hiller in 1890 and again by Otto Crusius in 1897, and good as that Anthology is, it is spoilt for my purpose by its lack of textual notes.

The works which I have consulted are mentioned by title each where reference is first made to it, but afterwards, if there is no fear of ambiguity, they are denoted only by the authors' names. Frequent use is made of the last important history of Greek literature: Histoire de la Litterature grecque, by Alfred and Maurice Croiset. Besides the critical editions which will be enumerated in the introduction to the text, I have had before me Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker's Theognidis Reliquiae (Francofurti ad Moenum, 1826), and the Anthologia Lyrica mentioned above. The editions which appeared before the discovery of the best manuscript, the Mutinensis, I have found of little use.

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