El comentario de Pedro Jaime Esteve a los Theriaca de Nicandro (Valencia, 1552): conjetura y traducción, o transmisión latina de los escolios griegos, in Sulla tradizione indiretta dei testi medici greci: i commenti ( S. Fortuna et al., eds.), Pisa - Roma, 2012, 149 - 185.

This article focuses on the contribution of Petrus Jacobus Steve, a physician and professor at the University of Valencia, to the Latin transmission of the medieval scholia on the toxicological poems of Nicander Colophonius, Theriaca and Alexipharmaca. Four examples from Steve’s Latin commentary on Theriaca (Valencia, 1552) show how the Valencian professor assessed critically the text of these Greek scholia, and how he used them to propose textual corrections and etymological explanations, or else to reject variants in the Theriaca. All this is preceded by some remarks on Steve’s work in the context of Latin translations and commentaries of Nicander’s poems published in sixteenth-century Europe.