L’epitome del περὶ πνευμάτων di Trifone d’Alessandria (con nuovi frammenti di Alessandro Etolo (?), Tirannione e Aristocle di Rodi)

The article offers the first critical edition of an epitome of the treatise Περὶ πνευμάτων by Trypho of Alexandria, grammarian living in the second half of the first century BCE. The importance of this epitome (already mentioned by P. Egenolff, Die orthoepischen Stücke der byzantinischen Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887, p. 26-27) can now be reconsidered in light of a new Parisinus manuscript witness that transmits the epitome in a more authentic version than the one known hitherto (and which is the fruit of an interpolation). The text contains interesting novelties concerning the doctrine of breathing developed by Trypho, and also yields two unpublished fragments of ancient authors, one of which is probably by Alexander Aetolus, and the other by the grammarian Tyrannion. The Appendix gives the edition of another unknown Περὶ πνευμάτων containing a new fragment by the grammarian Aristocles.