Observations sur le lexique de la Rhétorique à Alexandre

As many technical works, the pseudo-aristotelian treatise quoted as Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, that is usually considered as having been written by Anaximenes Lampsacenus, has experienced «fluid» transmission. We now have the proof, based on several old witnesses and a papyrus, that not only has the text been modified by the usual accidents linked to transmission, but that it has in fact been rewritten. However, the documents that could play the role of comparison instruments are most fragmentary, and do not permit to evaluate the dimension of the phenomenon. Our aim is to perform this evaluation by examining the lexicon — namely technical — of the document. It appears that alterations of the text are relatively mild and do not significantly affect the initial features (middle of the IVth century B.C.) of most of the doctrine

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