Enquiry into Plants

...flew. With a most copious index. Leiden, from the printing house of Henricus ab Haestens. At the expense of Jo. Orlers, And. Cloucq, and Jo. Maire. 1613. fol.

N. B. He attempted to correct the text against the Heidelberg manuscript and the first Aldine edition, augmented by various readings, parallel passages from Pliny, and conjectures by a certain learned man. But since he nowhere indicates whether he amended them by the authority of manuscripts, by following Pliny, or by being led by conjecture, the authority of this edition is truly tenuous. He corrected Gaza’s version, which is set opposite the text, in several places; although it must be confessed that those things which stood most in need of an amending hand were omitted. Cf. Ezech. Spanh. obs. ad Aristoph. Plut. v. 1088. Moldenhawer.

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The ten books of the History of Plants by Theophrastus of Eresus, (omitting the fragments of Book X) in Greek and Latin. In which J. Bodæus a Stapel illustrated the Greek text with various readings, emendations, and supplements for the lacunae; the Latin version of Gaza with a new interpretation in the margins; and the whole work with the most exhaustive notes as well as commentaries: likewise with images of rare plants. With a most copious index. At the house of Henricus Laurentius, Amsterdam, 1644. fol.

The author, having died scarcely after finishing the labor, left the work to be published by his father, Egbert Bodæus. Bodæus accomplished all that those times and that age could bear. He poured forth, with vast erudition, many things scattered in the writings of the ancients for the sake of restoring and explaining the text; he also used conjecture keenly, although he attributed too much to Pliny.