UN ERRORE ANTICO: NOTA TESTUALE A PLUT. PEL. 35, 2 E A PAUS. 9, 13, 6.

The article reassesses the evidence for Malekidas, a boeotarch of the mid-sixties of the fourth century BC (IG VII 2408), to whom similar forms of the personal name at Plut. Pel. 35, 2 and Paus. 9, 13, 6 have been attributed. Similarity with the form Malekidas, however, does not constitute grounds for emending the name Malkites at Plut. Pel. 35, 2. In fact, a mistake that had already been made in antiquity may explain the other erroneous form, *Malgis, at Paus. 9, 13, 6, which is not generally emended. The forms in Plutarch and Pausanias are probably derived from textually corrupt sources about this person, and hence should not be emended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]