{"id":1803,"date":"2020-05-06T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:06:55","slug":"an-honest-editorial-preface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2020\/05\/06\/an-honest-editorial-preface\/","title":{"rendered":"An honest editorial preface"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pieter Burman’s edition of the works of Ovid (1713, with many later versions) was the dominant edition of Ovid until the early nineteenth century. It was a variorum edition based on the text of the great Dutch poet and classical scholar Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder<\/a> (1652) with notes in Latin by various scholars, especially the German humanist Jacob Micyllus<\/a><\/p>\n

Burman’s preface begins with this charming bit of rueful indignation:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf I ever began a piece of work quickly and eagerly, it was certainly this edition of Ovid. At the same time, I cannot conceal the fact that in the process of completing it so many tedious annoyances arose for me that I cursed my plan of editing Ovid in the first place a thousand times, and I regretted naively trusting men who did nothing but delay and had no concern but their own financial profit.”<\/p>\n

Burman’s Latin is just delightful, and I recommend this edition to those who want to understand Ovid’s Latin in Latin, that is, by reading explanatory notes in Latin:<\/p>\n

Burman, Pieter. Publii Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia<\/em>, vol. 1<\/a>. (Amsterdam: R. & J. Wetstenios & G. Smith, 1727) unpaginated preface.<\/p>\n

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