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Crater Cratera Creterra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The article on crater cratera creterra in T.L.L. iv. 1108–10 is imperfect: several examples are omitted and no clear and coherent account of these forms is given.
crater appears first in Ennius' Annales (511 Vahl.); and very likely it was Ennius who, finding cratera too ordinary for poetry, transliterated 
. For several centuries crater remained a poets' word. It may have been introduced into prose by the elder Pliny, who affects poetic vocabulary; in later prose it is found more frequently than either cratera or creter
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page 85 note 1 Of crater: Ov. Fast. 2. 244, 266Google Scholar, Manil. I. 418, 5. 235, 250Google Scholar (‘Deest ex gr. apud … Manil.’); of cratera: Germ. Phaen. 505 (the manuscripts have crateram, but Kinch's creterram must be right), Firm. Mat. Math. 8. 10.Google Scholar 6. The following corrections should be made. 1108. 48: kratera (C.I.L. xiii. 7640Google Scholar) is scarcely the ace. sing, of crater or krater; more likely the final m was left off (compare C.I.L. vi. 327, 414, 532, 589).Google Scholar 1108. 58: Hilde-brand, not Ursinus, conjectured creterras (this error is repeated 1109. 41). 1108. 72: The name of the scholar is Gauchius, and crateribus was not the original reading of the manuscript. 1108. 74: The reference should be to Verr. 2. 4. 131. 1108. 81Google Scholar: The references should be to Aen. 9. 266, 346, 358. 1109.Google Scholar 66: The suppletion crater arg(enteus) (C.I.L. x. 3927Google Scholar) is probably wrong. ibid.: xiii should be inserted before 7640. Taken merely as a collection of examples, however, this article is very useful.
page 85 note 2 33. 51 35. 156 (giving Varro as his source), 36. 29, 62. It is true that crater is used by Vitruvius (9. 5. I,2) and Columella (II. 2. 20, 65) of the constellation, by Cicero, (Ad Att. 2. 8. 2Google Scholar) of Baiae, by Varro, (Serv. Dan. ad Aen. 10. 145Google Scholar) of the Capuan landscape ; but Pliny, so far as can now be told, is the first to use it in its ordinary sense.
page 85 note 3 There is a variant creterram, derived from the epitome of Julius Paris.
page 85 note 4 This peculiar fact was noticed by Kinch, K. F., Quaestiones Curtianae Criticae (Copenhagen, 1883), p. 27Google Scholar, not cited in T.L.L. Cratera seems to be the only form found on inscriptions (all dedicatory). I disregard a few trivial or doubtful examples of cratera.
page 85 note 5 So Kinch, , op. cit., p. 28.Google Scholar
page 87 note 1 Perhaps it should be mentioned that at Ov. Met. 13. 681 Merkel and Riese printed crateram … quam, the reading of the Marcianus and a very few inferior manuscripts. Most manuscripts have cratera … quern, which is no doubt what Ovid wrote.Google Scholar
page 87 note 2 I have verified Keil's report of C with a microfilm sent to me through the kind offices of Mile J. Vielliard, Directrice of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris.