Hippocrates, Vol. II (Loeb Classical Library)

PREFACE

In this, the second volume of Hippocrates in the Loeb series, it has been found useful to go more fully into textual questions than was necessary when preparing Volume I. Critical scholars have cleared away most of the blemishes that disfigured the text of Airs, Waters, Places and of Epidemics I and III, but the text of many of the treatises in the present volume remains uncertain in places.

Many kind helpers have made the task of preparing the text easier than it would otherwise have been. The Earl of Leicester and Mr. C. W. James have given me the opportunity of consulting Holkhamensis 282 A specific medieval manuscript of the Hippocratic corpus. at my leisure. Dr. Karl Mras, Professor in Vienna, has sent me a photograph of a part of θ A manuscript identifier., and the Librarians of S. Mark’s Library, Venice, and of the Vatican Library, have similarly helped me to collate M and V. The Curators of the Bodleian were kind enough to allow me to inspect Baroccian 204. The Librarians of the Cambridge University Library have helped me in various ways, and Dr. Minns has given me the benefit of his expert advice in deciphering passages that presented special difficulty.

My colleague the Reverend H. J. Chaytor continues to lend me his invaluable services, and I must thank Sir Clifford Allbutt for a most searching criticism of the first volume.