The ‘Ptolemy’ Epigram: A Scholion on the Preface of the <i>Syntaxis</i>

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  • Cristian Tolsa

Abstract

The epigram in praise of mathematics, attributed to Claudius Ptolemy in the Anth.Gr., can be shown by the manuscripts and by its variant readings to have originated as a marginalium added to his Syntaxis and later taken to be his own composition.

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2014-08-30

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