I am struggling to trace some of Burnet’s citation in his apparatus criticus. He cites Ficino/Ficinus on 29d1, 37c10, 52c5, 56a5, 60d8.
Assuming that Burnet did not use manuscripts, did he use the 1484 Latin translation? But since he quotes Greek words, I assume it might be Ficino’s 1496 commentary? But which print might he have used (given that there was no critical edition of Ficino’s Philebus-commentary in 1901)?
As always, any hints are much appreciated!
I was going to suggest you tried asking Michael Allen, who was a colleague of mine at UCLA, but he died two years ago.
Another line of approach would be to contact the prospective editors of the new OCT. Unfortunately that stalled after the publication of the first volume 30 years ago! (I reviewed it in BMCR.)
Your query is an extremely recondite one, and it astounds me that your previous one attracted so much attention here, on a site which is otherwise practically dead.
He may have been citing someone else’s citations?
The flourish at the end of mwh’s post is incorrect, imo. The site seems to get both posts and readers at a regular enough rate.
After having surveyed some earlier editions from the 19th century, as well as reprints of Ficino’s translation and commentary, I now believe that Ficino did not annotate Greek variants in his commentary/translation. His focus was on philosophical exegesis, not textual criticism. Thus, following editors (beginning with Cornarius) had to extrapolate from Ficino’s Latin choices what Greek he must or might have read.