Un commento antico e una congettura umanistica: Galeno e lo ‘splendore’ di Andromaco il Vecchio

In the antidote Galēnē by Andromachus the Elder (14.32.113-42.8 K) ) we nd (14.40.5)the noun ἀγλαΐην, «brightness», that causes some exegetical problems. Galen, however,commenting on the Galēnē in the rst book of his de antidotis, conms this term and re-commends that it should not be considered as an ingredient of the antidote. In a late ma-nuscript, the Parisinus gr. 2164, the term ἀγλαΐην is corrected into the adjective αἰγλῆεν,that could refer to the white pepper. Here I suggest that this conjecture should be consi-dered for a critical restitution of Andromachus’ text, in spite of Galen’s authority