Editing Coluthus (section)

==Printed editions==
The first printed edition was by [[Aldus Manutius]], Venice, possibly in 1505.<ref>{{harvnb|Mair|1928|p=[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Colluthus/Introduction*.html#Editions 538]}} suggested probably about 1521.</ref>

Early editions by John Daniel van Lennep (1747, the first critical edition, collating six mss.), G.F. Schafer (1825), E. Abel (1880) and W. Weinberger (Teubner, 1896),{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=748}} have been superseded by that of [[Enrico Livrea]] (1968).<ref>Livrea, ''Colluto: il Ratto di Elena'' (Bologna). Critical text, introduction, critical apparatus, Italian translation, commentary and parallels.</ref>

The best manuscript of this difficult and corrupt text is the so-called ''Codex Mutinensis'' (Bibliothèque nationale suppl. graec. 388) which Hall, ''Companion to Classical Texts'', p.&nbsp;278, says "was never at Modena but was brought by the French in the [[Napoleonic wars]] at the beginning of the 19th century from somewhere in North Italy".