Most valuably, unlike their predecessors, the new editions have an apparatus criticus - introductions, chronologies, textual notes, explanatory notes, select bibliographies, and often appendices of relevant material.
The methods of modern editors will be a point of focus, and students will learn how to interpret and use the apparatus criticus of a scholarly edition.
The writer of these lines is not a friend of footnotes, long appendices or pseudo-scholarly apparatus critici, but he would have wished for more diligence in that department.
For as long as Homer remains culturally vital, every correct philological finding, incorporated (along with an attribution) into the apparatus criticus of his texts, will stay alive.
By these means students will be able to make intelligent, practical use of an apparatus criticus and to exercise independent judgement in their evaluation of readings.
This excellent text features an extensive apparatus criticus and marginal notes that enhance the student's understanding of Plutarch's account of Pericles’ life.
We told about updating editions and adding apparatus criticus to the texts.
The reading on the stone or ceramic is then discussed in the apparatus criticus accompanying the text.
The paper of the edition is a creamy off-white, a strong, smooth, with a high cotton rag content; the text is clear, small, and unmuddled, with a generous apparatus criticus and notes at the bottom of each page.
The first stage was the publication of transcriptions and apparatus criticus and plates of the papyri.
Variant manuscripts should be denoted in the apparatus criticus by single, upper case, bold letters.
But the apparatus criticus has to handle ‘out of line’ or more general comments.