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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Zenobius Parisinus: a rationale for a practical edition of the vulgate MS (<i>Parisinus grec 3070</i>)</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">A significant body of evidence for early Greek history is found entangled in the complex recensions transmitting Ancient Greek proverbs. Many of these proverbs originate in the archaic
and classical period and fossilise <span style="background:white">via a popular medium</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"> obscure events and institutions about which we are otherwise ignorant. The main proverb collections, transmitted
via Byzantine MSS, very often contain—in addition to the proverbs themselves—scholarly exegesis, glosses, and the learned citation of lost literature. These exegeses are of great historical interest for the explanations and fragments they include. Most of
these manuscripts contain epitomes of the larger collections made by Zenobius and Diogenianus early in the 2nd century CE. <span style="background:white">Zenobius and Diogenianus synthesised </span>earlier Alexandrian scholarship (especially the work of Didymus
and Lukillos of Tarrhaeus) that ultimately descended from the pioneering scientific approach to proverbs initiated by Aristotle.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">These later epitomes were transmitted to the early Renaissance along broadly two traditions: one tradition arranged proverbs <i>alphabetically</i> by initial word. The other, the so-called ‘Athos Recension’, arranged
proverbs <i>non-alphabetically</i>. 20th century scholarship has focused almost exclusively on the non-alphabetic ‘Athos' tradition—preserved in a celebrated manuscript (</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Paris
Supplement 1164</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">) found by Emmanuel Miller on Mt Athos and published in 1868—on the assumption that alphabetization was a later Byzantine reordering, and hence corruption, of the material. Since the 1890s
the alphabetic, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">so-called ‘vulgate’, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">tradition has been considerably neglected.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">This neglect is, in fact, quite profound. The two main editions of the ‘vulgate’ are those of Thomas Gaisford (<i>Paroemiographi Graeci</i>, Oxford 1836) and the <i>Corpus Paroemiographorum
Graecorum </i>edited<i> </i>by E.L. Leutsch and F.G. Schneidewin (2 volumes, Göttingen 1839-51). Both are almost two centuries old. The discovery of the ‘Athos Recension’ in 1868 diverted much of the scholarly attention away from the vulgate texts of the epitomes
of Zenobius and Diogenianius. The project briefly presented here is a step toward renewing interest in the vulgate tradition by providing a rationale for an updated text and translation of the manuscript containing the oldest, fullest, and best-preserved collection
of the vulgate Zenobius (<i>Codex Parisinus Graecus 3070</i>, 12th century CE, containing 572 proverbs). What follows will be the first working edition, translation, and historical commentary on this important source in over 150 years.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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