Clement of Alexandria I: Protrepticus and Paedagogus

its interpolation is unlikely). That Arethas still had the source for the transcript made for him at hand while reading it is also shown by the scholion on p. 47, 5 on p. 314, 24—28. This scholion is written by Arethas, but the signs connecting the word in the text and the scholion stem from Baanes. Now, the possibility is not excluded that Arethas composed the missing scholion himself, but it is more likely that he supplemented it from the original. The content also seems to speak for this in my view.

Thus, the result of this investigation is: Arethas made most of his changes independently without the use of a manuscript; at individual places, however, he used a manuscript, likely the source for P. When one or the other is to be assumed can only be decided case by case. Since the decision is often doubtful, I have either placed the additions only in the apparatus or marked them as additions in the text.

Besides the corrections of Baanes and Arethas, there are also very numerous changes in P by a hand of the 14th or 15th century, which is perhaps identical to the hand of the aforementioned Meletios. These are, however, mostly only orthographic changes; e.g., πνα spirit/breath is corrected by this hand to πνεῦμα spirit/breath when it does not mean the Holy Spirit but rather breeze or breath; the same hand changes εἰστὸ into the to εἰς τὸ, and at line breaks οὐ | καὐτὸν to οὐκ | αὐτὸν not him and similar things. Furthermore, there are isolated corrections by other hands, among which one stands out due to the use of a pale red ink. Some more important changes, e.g., B. 11, 7; 12, 6. 7; 14, 6; 17, 20 f, go back to a comparison with Euseb. Praep. Evang. in the same manuscript.

The scholia are written partly by Baanes, partly by Arethas; the distinction between these two hands is the merit of von Gebhardt; in detail, a few corrections and additions resulted from a new examination. In some places, smaller scholia are erased and repeated elsewhere in order to clear the margin for connected pieces that have nothing to do with the text. These marginal pieces (cf. Klotz IV p. 119. 120; Dindorf I p. XIII) are probably also written by the hand of Meletios. In numerous places, short marginal notes, mostly content summaries or words repeated from the text, are deleted without being entered elsewhere.

1. It is possible that this source contained marginal notes and collations that Baanes had not taken into account and that Arethas then used. Valuable transcripts were frequently collated with the original. Cf. e.g., Kroll Procli Praef. vol. II. p. III sq.