Editions
Since Suidas, Angelus Politianus (in the 15th century) was the first writer who mentioned
the
Ephesiaca of Xenophon. But although he had quoted a
passage from the work, its existence was doubted or denied by several scholars of the 17th
century.
Even after an Italian translation by A. M. Salvini had been published (in
1723), and
the Greek text had been printed in 1726, Lenglet du
Fresnoy, in 1734, denied the existence of the original.
There is but a single manuscript of the work known (in the monastery of the Monte
Cassino). The Greek text was first published by Ant. Cocchi, with a Latin translation
(London, 1726). This edition contains numerous errors. A still worse edition
was published at Lucca (1781), containing, besides the Latin translation of Cocchi,
the Italian version of Salvini, and the French version of Jourdan. Xenophon was still more
unfortunate in his next editor, Polyzois Kontu (Vienna, 1793).
A very excellent and carefully prepared edition was published by Baron de Locella
(Vienna, 1796). He procured a fresh collation of the manuscript, and availed himself of
the critical remarks of Hemsterhuis, D'Abresch, and D'Orville (Miscellaneae Observationes, vols. iii.--vi.), and the labours of F.J. Bast, who had
made preparations for editing the work. Locella also prepared a new translation and a
commentary. The Ephesiaca was reprinted by C. W. Mitscherlich, in his
Scriptores Erotici Graeci.Another good edition is that of P. Hofmann Peerlkamp (Harlem, 1818).The most recent edition is that of F. Passow (Lips. 1833, in the Corpus
Scriptorum Eroticorum Graecorum).
Translations
There are German translations by G. A. Bürger,
Häuslin, E. C. Reiske (or rather his wife), in his
collections entitled
Zur Moral (Dessau and Leipzig, 1782, and
Hellas, Leipzig, 1791), and Krabinger, besides one that appeared
anonymously.
In French there are translations by P. Bauche (Paris, 1736), and J. B.
Jourdan (Paris, 1748).A translation of the Ephesiaca also forms the seventh volume of the
Bibliothèque des Romans traduits du Grec (Paris,
1797).An anonymous translation, with notes, was published at Paris in 1823.
The Italian translation of Salvini has several times been republished.
There is also an English translation by Rooke, London,
1727.