Charles Merk reviews Hilgenfeld 1887, includes 1859 Simonides addition
Classical Review (1901)
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Hermae Pastor Graece Integrum Ambitu. Primum Edidit ADOLFUS HILGENFELD. Leipzig: Weigel. 1887. (London: Trübner.) 4 Mk.
PROFESSOR HILGENFELD gives us in the Prolegomena an account of the Greek editions of Hermas which have appeared since 1856. In that year R. Anger and G. Dindorf published the complete Greek text as far as Sim. IX. 30, 3. They availed themselves for their edition of three MS. leaves containing Mand. XII. 4, 8, to Sim. VIII. 4, 3, and Sim. IX. 15, 1, to IX. 30, 5, which C. Simonides had brought from Mount Athos, as well as of a copy
(apograph II.) which he had made of the earlier and the intervening portions of the book. On the same MS. leaves, but on a different copy
(apograph I.), C. Tischendorf based his edition of Hermas 1856. This however, as well as the later editions by
A. Hilgenfeld, 1866 and 1881,
O. v. Gebhardt and
A. Harnack, 1887,
F. Funk, 1878
-altogether five since Hefele-stopped short at Sim. IX. 30, 3, εἰ δὲ.... In these editions the remaining portion, IX. 30, 3-X. 4, 5, was added from Latin translations.
Simonides had already (1859) published the last Sim. in Greek. But having been convicted of a series of systematic forgeries, his last edition to the text of Hermas was at the time universally rejected as spurious:
'Timendus igitur est hic Danaus et dona ferens, sed etiam dona tulit non respuenda,'
says Hilgenfeld.
He considers that the man to whom we owe so large a part of the Greek text has a right to be heard when he offers to restore the last remaining chapter, and that his proposal should not be so peremptorily dismissed, as was done by Harnack (
Theol. Lit. Zeit. 1887, No. 7: comp. No. 21). Hilgenfeld admits the last Sim., not however without a certain amount of hesitation, into his edition, and thus furnishes the first '
H. P. Gracce integer ambitu.' The editor gives in the remaining four chapters of the
Prolegg. an account of the
Cod. Lipsieusis vel Clementinus, the two apographs taken by Simonides, the remaining MSS. of Hermas, the Cod. Sinaiticus and the Cod. Amphilochii, the extracts found in ecclesiastical writers, as well as the old Latin and Aethiopic versions of the last Simm. There follows
'a life of Hermas': the work, it is stated on the authority of Simonides, of a Libyan bishop of the sixth century. The text is accompanied by copious notes. The readings found in the different Codd. and apographs are fully quoted, as well as those which have been adopted in the various editions mentioned above.
Antiochus Homm. XCIV. and CXXII. are very appropriately quoted in illustration of Sim. IX. 31
sq. The lost portion, Sim. IX. 30, 3 -X. 4, 5, is given first as restored by Simonides, next as rendered in the Versio Vulgata Palatina, and finally in a Greek translation by the editor. Whatever the value may be of the additions which Simonides offered to make to the Greek text of Hermas, there can be no doubt as to the completeness of this its latest edition.
CHARLES MERK
—Rev. CHARLES MERK, M.A., Ph.D., Chaplain, Christ Church, Dieppe (late Master at Uppingham, Professor at Queen's College,
London, and Lecturer at Wren’s),
The French author Charles Merk 'History of Dieppe' records the two year events of Jaques in Dieppe.
