XXVI, 40, 17 per latrocinia ac rapinam tolerantes uitam (Luchs); latrocinia at rapinam P; latrocinia ad rapinam R. XXVI, 41, 13 nullum iam nomen esset populi Romani (Luchs); set P; sed R, M. XXVI, 51, 6 remigium classicique milites tranquillo in altum euecti P; clausicique milites R1. The error of the scribe, which was apparently purely accidental, has grown into a serious corruption in the attempt at emendation on the part of a corrector. The passage now reads: remigium clausi civesque milites, etc. XXVI, 51, 7 haec extra urbem terra marique corpora simul animosque ad bellum acuebant; urbs ipsa strepebat, etc. (Luchs); acuebant urp. sipsa P; acuebantur p. sipsa R1; acuebantur p. ipsa, after erasure. XXVII, 42, 1 itaque excitus tumultu raptim ad hostem copias agit (Luchs). By a confusion of letters P has coptas; this a corrector in R altered to captas, but the correction is now erased. XXVIII, 26, 12 ut ultro territuri succlamationibus (Luchs); ferrituri P; ferituri R. XXVIII, 27, 11 ut uenti et aurae cient (Luchs); et ueni et P1; et uenti et P2; et ueniet aurae R1; et uenietes (= uenientes) aurae corrector in R. XXVIIII, 1, 20 eum superesse unum ducem Romanis ceteris ab Hannibale interfectis rebatur (Luchs); interfectis rebantur P, R1; this a corrector in R has wilfully emended to interficiebantur. XXVIIII, 7, 5 cum equitibus Numidis circumequitabat urbem (Luchs); circumequitib. | at P1; circumequitat P2; circumeat R1 (now corrected to the reading of P2). XXVIIII, 8, 11 tum quoque alio genere cladis eadem illa pecunia omnibus contactis ea uiolatione templi furorem obiecit. (Luchs). By the confusion of the letters t and i, P has contactis ea utulatione. R1 wrote contracti se autulatione, which has been altered by a corrector to contracti se adulatione. XXVIIII, 14, 14 populus frequens dona deae in Palatium tulit, lectisterniumque et ludi fuere, Megalensia appellata (Luchs); magalesiia appellata P; megalesi iam appellata R. From the above examples it can be seen that these successive tamperings with what was originally but a slight corruption have occasionally led, in the end, to the restoration of the original reading; more frequently, however, they have led farther and farther away from it, so that, by the time a given corruption has passed through the hands of the corrector of the eleventhcentury M, it may be beyond the reach of purely palaeographical restoration, and can only be emended by plunging boldly into the realm of conjecture, which may meet with as much or as little success, in restoring the actual words of the author, as the efforts of the various correctors in P, R, and M have had. These various attempts at emendation are for the most part superficial, and few of them are extensive, but they gradually accumulate into corruptions of considerable proportions, whose cumulative growth points pretty clearly to one. of the reasons for the corrupt condition of manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Alcuin, 8, 13, 64; de Orthographia, 78. Idiomatic expressions, 76. Mediceus (Florence Laur. Lib. LXIII, Nauto, 11, 14, 15, 79. 20), 9, 10, 85. Nouns, alterations in case-endings of, 72. Puteanus (Nat. Lib. Paris, 5730), 4, Numerals, corruptions of, 46. Omission, errors of, 27. Reginensis 762 (Vat. Lib.), 4, 7, 10, Orthographia of Alcuin, 78, 79. Confusion of letters, 33; of numeral signs, 46; of similar words, 44. Corrections in the Puteanus, 63. Error, cumulation of, 85. Errors due to abbreviations, 54; due to Fridegisus, abbot of St. Martin's, 12. Parablepsy, 29. Puteanus, see Codex. Theogrîñ, Theogrimn, Theogrimnus, Unfamiliar words, 75. Verbs, alterations in mood, tense, and Wölfflin, 64. 93 |