This edition of the Dialexeis replaces Hermann Hobein's Teubner edition of 1910. Though it is based on Parisinus graecus 1962 (now established as the ancestor of all surviving manuscripts of the Dialexeis , careful attention has also been paid to the conjectures and improvements already evidenced in the remainder of the manuscript tradition, and to the contributions to such early modern scholars as Janus Lascaris and Zenobio Acciaiuoli. The Introduction discusses the character and history of the Parisinus, the codices descripti and their interrelations, printed editions and translations of the Dialexeis , and the evidence for the life of the author. A secondary apparatus attempts to identify not only formal quotations from classical literature, but also more indirect allusions and evocations. Two appendixes reproduce not only the older scholia carried by the Parisinus, but also those added in the finfteenth century by Politian. The Index covers both proper names and all those quotations and allusions identified in the secondary apparatus.
