O ediţie din Stephanus Byzantinus, sursă a lui Dimitrie Cantemir
An Edition from Stephanus Byzantinus, One of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Sources

Summary/Abstract: The problem of identifying Dimitrie Cantemir’s sources is an intricate one since the Romanian author becomes negligent when it comes to revealing them or is simply satisfied to mention the author’s name and sometimes work with or without reference to the book, chapter or page. As a result, it is difficult to assess whether a certain quotation was taken from a writer’s edition to which reference is made or via an intermediary source. A note of Stephanus Byzantinus’s geographical dictionary in a bilingual edition drafted by A. Berkelius seems to have provided him a series of quotations from ancient authors that Cantemir uses as such (in De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus), getting inspiration from the editor’s expressions even when formulating his comments.

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