New Fragments of Scholia on Sophocles' "Ajax" Smith, Morton Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Winter 1960; 3, 1; ProQuest pg. 40 New Fragments of Scholia on Sophocles' Ajax Morton Smith THE MONASTERY OF MAR SABA, a few miles southeast of Jeru- salem, has a number of late Greek manuscripts, fragments of older manuscripts, and printed books containing considerable manuscript material. A catalogue of seventy-six of these items, by the present author, has been submitted for publication to N ea Sion, the periodical of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Among the items catalogued is one (No. 21) which may be of interest to clas­ sical scholars. This is a copy of the book EvXat TOV AVXVtKOV Kat TOV opOpov, ed. Venice, 1746, in which are pasted to the inside of the front and back covers two pages from a fifteenth century paper manuscript of the Ajax of Sophocles, 188 x 123 mm., with marginal scholia and interlinear glosses (see Plates 3 and 4). The text and scholia are in dark brown ink in a good book hand, rather square, the hand of a practiced writer writing carefully but rapidly. Many ligatures and abbreviations are used in the scholia and even more in the interlinear glosses, which are in a pale yellow ink, as are the headings indicating the speakers. In the glosses the hand is slightly hastier, not so square, more fluent than in the text and scholia. In the text, a few letters omitted in first writing have been added above the lines, the places for the addition being indicated by sublinear carets. These corrections were made by the original hand before the writing of the glosses, which avoid them. At present only the verso of the first page and the recto of the second can be read, though enough can be seen where the paper is loose to prove that text, glosses, and scholia continued on the sides now pasted down. Folio 1 verso (Plate 3) contains lines 32 through 44; 2 recto (plate 4), lines 45 through 56. In line 32 the text reads ',./ , SMITH PLATE 3 ~~~~lil1A.QA·.wV~~f{)qV~ (al) . , . \~~,), ,', \ ".,.~; 1A.Ut r u~+"¥4C!.~ ~ r ~,.,-qJ 1(0 UA' ~ r [,40¥.) :.~" ,'/ 'f, ~"", " rrefrtf"f,_f~Utij~ wi P 4vwl~(l~~' , ~~~O~;';;:~~UA~d~~tc MV, C~' t';· 1;:~. .' t1~~rcr(/"~.~ eft: ~,~~ ~~ r;~ ;' ", '~~'r' , • • If' '" ' . ;f "':"~/V~';"(,,~~ """e"'" v,;; MS. MAR SABA 21, folio 1 verso ,y I '1 ~ I --:-~ • '71lC .... 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I( ~ ,,,, ., . . n 1'f'IY" Of..11"Y· OT"(, "";VY""':' "J4~f411/' '{ )(';V(~1<-""r\"~~v1J. ..., tTl ~ rn ?:: .., :t 1960] NEW SCHOLIA ON A/AX 41 dtu"U"w for /f-U"U"w; in 33, OTOV with L; in 45, egeTrpagEv with A against L, its only significant variation from the text of Jebb. The last word of line S2 has been obliterated and there are a few minor mistakes, mostly iotacisms and omissions of final nu. Iota subscript is written only once (in vgE, line 40). The interlinear glosses add explanatory words, or give more familiar (but mostly classical) equivalents for the words in the text. The scholia are written beside lines 32, 37, 39, 41, 50, 52, and 55. Those beside 50 and 52 are introduced by capital epsilons (in that beside 50 this letter serves as the first letter of the scholionr in that beside S2 it does not). The beginnings of the lines of the other scholia have been lost. Since some of the scholia are among those printed in the edition of Brunck (Scholia graeca in Soph­ oeZem, ed. alter a, Oxford, 1810), mostly among the Byzantine scholia which he prints as footnotes to his pages, it can be seen that about six letters have been lost from the beginnings of the lines of the scholia on 1 verso, and a like number from the ends of the lines of 2 recto. The scholia read as follows: Beside line 32 = Brunck, page 4, footnote on 33, from TWV aLnanKWV to end, + Brunck, page 5, footnote on 40, TrPOI[; TrOtOV U"K07TOV dcpopwv. The MS has replaced the -LKWV of aLnanKwv by what seems to be A r" reads OU 8€ for the first oVT.e, and 'ATnKWI[; for 'ATnKOtl[;. Between the two passages paralleled from Brunck it has the words Kat Trp • •••• v. Beside line 37 = Brunck, page S, footnote on 40, from 87JAOVOn TrPOI[; Trotov U"K07TOV to end. The MS adds Kat after 87JAOVOn, has an iota (or a blot?) between TrPOI[; and TrOtOV, omits aVT~ before eTrtpp~f.LaTOC;, and probably again before To1), and omits ~A()EV after TaxVI[;. Beside line 39: ]' .VCl) e/lapvv ].TJ yap U"KOTCJJ- ] / .. Kapov WI[; 0 Beside line 41: Lines 1--6 = Brunck, page 5, footnote on 42, from j3aU"LV ETrOt~U"aTo to end. The MS reads KaTO, for the first Kat.., ()eAw for ()eAwv, €f.LTrt..TrTELV for €f.LTrt..TrTEL, cpovwv for cpovov, 42 MORTON SMITH [GRBS 3 and for KVKAOVVTa {3aa"tV has ... AovvTEv{3a •• Hereupon f 11 ] ., " o ows: .EVEKEV EPXO/LEVOt; ] : T7Jt; 71'OL/Lvtat; ] .EL 'Yap cpa/LEV TO ] " '''(J • E/L71't71'TEL 0 av PW71'ot; ] ./LtOtt; TO Sf E ] .0 avO PW71'ot; {3auw. This fragment seems to be related to the scholion of 'Demetrius Triclinius' on line 42, printed in Brunck, page 334, but the paral­ lelism is not close. In the MS it is followed immediately by the last lines of the scholion already written above, beside line 37, from r;gEv to the end. This time the MS varies from Brunck by reading ~ instead of Kat before EKtV'Y}CTEV, omitting OVTW XE'ipa, omitting S€ after eUTL and aVTt TOV after E71'Lpp~/LaTOt;, adding Kat after E71'Lpp~/LaTOt;, and omitting TOV before TaX€Wt;. Beside line 50 = Brunck, page 5, footnote on SO, from E71'€XW to end. No variants from Brunck. Beside line 52 = Brunck, page 6, footnote on 51, from EVCPOpOV to end. The MS reads SVCTCPOpOV instead of SVCTKOAOV S€ and omits TOV after aVTL. Beside line 55: paXt'EW TO /-!-E [ paVTa /Lap?S [ KAEWt; paXtWUL [ Here follows Brunck, page 6, on 55, from Sta TO T~V 71'PWT'Y}V to end. The MS adds T~V before paXLv and reads S€ instead of Kat after /LETaCPOpos. This is the only one of the scholia in the MS to appear also in the editions of P. Elmsley (Scholia in Sophoclis tragoedias septem, Oxford, 1825, page 205, on line 56) and P. Papageorgius (Scholia in Sophoclis tragoedias vetera, Leipzig, 1888, page 7, on line 56). Papageorgius agrees with our MS by adding T1]V before paxw, but he adds it in pointed brackets. Both he and Elmsley read Kat with Brunck, against this MS, and both read /LE'YaAa instead of /LE'YaAWt;, against both Brunck and the manuscript. CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY November 1959