Xeiiophon's Greek History. 241 II. On the Title of XenophorCs Greek History. From the German of L. Dindorf.* JNiEBUHR was induced to consider Xenophon'^s Greek history as compounded, against the authors intention, of two works written at different times, namely, the conclusion of Thucydides, and the Hellenics, by arguments partly de- rived from internal, partly from external evidence ; on the latter of which I purpose to offer a few remarks. In the first place, Niebuhr'^s statement that according to the Biblio- theca Graeca all the seven books are in the Aldine edition entitled Paralipomena Thucydidis^ rests upon an error, the correction of which he himself would have been the first to approve. The words of Fabricius both in the edition of 1707 (Vol II. p. 74) and in that of Harles (Vol. iii. p. 9) are : Has libros Xenophontis^ sub titulo Paralipomenon^ Thiicy- didi Graece subjecit Aldus anno 1502. Fol. : and so I find elsewhere the Latin title of that Aldine edition stated thus, Xenophontis omissa^ quae et graeca gesta appella^itur^ with- out any mention of the name of Thucydides. And even the word TrapaXeiTTojueua can only be in the titlepage, and not in the superscription itself; for this in the complete Aldine edition of Xenophon dated in 1525 is 'BevocpwvTo^ 'EWrjvcKwv TrpwTov : and it is evident that the sheets containing the Hellenics in this edition are the same which were used in the former one, as even without being able to consult the latter I infer both from the two blank leaves between the Anabasis and the Hellenics, while in other places there is a great par- simony of paper, and also from the printer'^s marks : for the first leaf of the supplement to the Aldine edition of 1503, which was afterwards published separately, and contains Ge- mistus, Herodian, and the Scholia to Thucydides, has the mark i/ii, while the last leaf of the Hellenics of 1525 is marked ri and the Hellenics in the edition of 1525 also begin with
- These remarks are printed in the Neue Jahrb'ucher fur Philologie imd P'dda^
gogik for 1832, Vol. i. p. 254, and as they contain a correction of an erroneous state- ment made in an essay, a translation of which appeared in our last number, we have thought it right to lay them before our readers. Vol.. II. No. 4. Hh
