Complete Works of Claudius Ptolemy, Vol. II

14 or omitted; 19, 9 omits 13; 27, 27 akrasia lack of self-control; 36, 4 Eudoxus and; 39, 19 argestes northwest wind; p. 36, 9 in the margin nothing, nor could this perhaps have been concluded from the words of Fabricius („mesos middle al. megas great“ p. 440); for megas great can be a conjecture of Fabricius, as on p. 51, 16; 62, 6. The passage on p. 19, 20 is doubtful, where the copy has it thus in the first hand: eos dynei anatellei it sets and rises in the east. Therefore, one passage of no importance remains, p. 38, 11, where the copy actually has archetai it begins, and p. 65, 13 aphorismenon defined (not aphorismenon separated), which can be coincidental; for which reason, without any harm, we can set aside both C and the copy of Fabricius along with the remaining codices which learned men have used until now in editing this work (see Prolegomena chap. IIa).

D — codex Vatic. Gr. 216, f. 27r—39v, about which see below chap. IIa cod. 4; I have accepted one emendation on p. 15, 7.

Bonauentura — Claudii Ptolemaei inerrantium stellarum apparitiones ac significationum collectio Collection of appearances and significations of the fixed stars of Claudius Ptolemy, a remarkably elegant little book... rendered into Latin and illustrated with some scholia by Fed. Bonaventura of Urbino. Urbino 1592.

Petauuius — Uranologium Treatise on the Heavens... under the care and study of Dionysius Petavius, Lutetia Parisiorum [Paris] 1630, p. 71 ff.

Ideler — On the Calendar of Ptolemy, Treatises of the Historical-Philological Class of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences from the years 1816—17, Berlin 1819, p. 163 ff.*)

Halma — Chronology of Ptolemy, Paris 1819, p. 13 ff.

Unger — Philologus XXVIII (1869) p. 11 ff.

Wachsmuth — Joannis Laurentii Lydi liber de ostentis et Calendaria Graeca omnia John Laurentius Lydus' Book of Omens and all Greek Calendars, edited again by C. Wachsmuth, Leipzig 1877, p. 197 ff. From Wachsmuth, I have also taken a few emendations of Hercher. One or two of Wachsmuth's conjectures, and several of Unger's, have been confirmed by the codices used by me. In my judgment, I have discarded conjectures that were either faulty or useless.

*) Ideler demonstrated the method of editing this small work. Compare also Boeckh, On the four-year solar cycles of the ancients, Berlin 1863, p. 226 ff.