Levy omitted conjectures 'quatenus falsae uel superuacuae uidebantur';
the result is that Korn's elegant _decretis_ does not appear even in the
apparatus at ix 44, and the same fate befalls Scaliger's _coactus_ at
xiii 27.
In 1924 the Loeb Classical Library published A. L. Wheeler's text and
translation of the _Tristia_ and _Ex Ponto_. His text is based on
Merkel's second edition, on Ehwald's _Beiträge_, and on Owen's Oxford
Classical Text. In several places he rightly abandons _B_'s reading,
printing _hanc_ for _ah_ at i 16 and _perstas_ for _praestas_ at x 83;
at iv 45 he was clearly tempted to print Heinsius' _quamlibet_. His
judgment is good, and if Ehwald and Owen had supplied him with more
information on other manuscripts and on the Heinsius-Burman vulgate, his
text might well have superseded all previous editions. His translation
is accurate, and in corrupt passages indicates the awkwardness of the
original; I have often quoted from it.
In 1938 there appeared the elaborate Paravia edition of F. W. Levy, who
in the period following his earlier edition had altered his name to F.
W. Lenz. The text is virtually unchanged from his edition of 1922, but
has a much larger apparatus, which includes a large number of
conjectures omitted from the earlier edition; I am indebted to Lenz for
many of the conjectures I report, particularly at xvi 33. The large size
of the apparatus is, however, deceptive; most of the manuscripts he knew
of only from the reports of Heinsius, Korn and Owen, and the reports are
therefore incomplete: the only manuscripts reliably reported are _B_ and
_C_. Since Lenz does not usually give the lemma for the variants
reported, it is difficult to tell which manuscripts offer the reading in
the text. Much space is wasted by reports of the readings of several
heavily interpolated mediaeval florilegia; more is wasted by an undue
attention to mediaeval spellings and attempts to reproduce abbreviations
and to show the precise appearance of secondary corrections. These
factors combine to render the apparatus virtually unreadable.
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