Certain Sources of Corruption in Latin Manuscripts: A Study Based Upon Two Manuscripts of Livy: Codex Puteanus (fifth Century), and Its Copy, Codex Reginensis 762 (ninth Century)

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Macmillan, 1904 - 93 pagine

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Pagina 72 - Dum haec in Hispania geruntur, Marcellus captis Syracusis cum cetera in Sicilia tanta fide atque integritate composuisset, ut non modo suam gloriam sed etiam maiestatem populi Romani augeret...
Pagina 86 - ... omnia timentibus funus fit regium, magis amore civium et caritate quam cura suorum celebre. brevi deinde ceteros tutores summovet...
Pagina 29 - Motae autem eorum mentes sunt non turn primum cum de vita imperatoris dubii rumores 1 allati sunt, sed iam ante licentia ex diutino, ut fit, otio conlecta, et non nihil quod in hostico laxius rapto suetis vivere artiores in 7 pace res erant.
Pagina 47 - He interpreted the oo oo oo oo as xxxx. Then, being in the habit of writing XL for 40, he supposed that the fourth oo was a scribal error and that 30 was the number. Feeling that the passage...
Pagina 46 - ... that oo was the symbol for 10, inasmuch as it was followed by cc ; yet he continued to make the same mistake throughout his quota of the work, though once, being in doubt, he left a blank to be filled in by the corrector. Other examples of his treatment of the symbol are : XXIII, 40, 4 ad GCXOC sardorum eo proelio caesa P.
Pagina 51 - ... meant 2 in combination with a preceding number, and then guessed that the first part meant 10. It will be seen from the above examples that the great majority of the numeral corruptions involve the larger numbers. Of a total of 32 examples, there are 15 in which x is written for oo.
Pagina 72 - ... humani rapere ex igni vellent, correpti alii flamma sunt, alii ambusti adflatu vaporis, cum receptus primis urgente turba non esset, ita Astapa sine praeda militum ferro ignique 5 absumpta est.
Pagina 48 - ... he concerned himself with the meaning at all, he must have taken it to mean something like this : " amid these thousand difficulties." XXVI, 22, 12 duobus plenis iam honorum que fabio et m marcello P, que fabio et mille marcello R. XXVI, 21, 5 ut in.
Pagina 47 - D in which a late corrector bas written m. The erased letters were probably xx, as the work of the scribe Aldo shows other cases of this confusion. There is a possibility, however, that the letters were oo oo, and that the correction was a deliberate one, made with the purpose of bringing Livy into harmony with Polybius, who gives 1500 as the number. In the two examples which follow, as well as in the second example from the work of Fredegaudus, this confusion of x and oo is responsible for a further...
Pagina 51 - Reginensis were prone, and the actual corruption due to this cause is slight when compared with the other classes already indicated. The same may be said of the errors arising from the two uses of the horizontal stroke which was drawn above the numerals, sometimes to indicate thousands, and sometimes simply to indicate a numeral. I have found no errors from this cause in R, for the reason that where the horizontal stroke was already in P it was usually reproduced in R, or if omitted, omitted intelligently....

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