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Anth. Lat. Ries. 678

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. E. Housman
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge

Abstract

This poem, first printed by Scaliger in his Ausonianae lectiones, lib. II c. 29, from a MS in the possession of Cuiacius, will also be found in Burman's anthologia Latina, vol. II p. 321, in Meyer's, no. 1032, and in Baehrens' poetae Latini minores, vol. V p. 350. In date, combining as it does the prosody of plānetae with the syntax of sex (for sexiens) denos, it can hardly be earlier than Prudentius and may easily be much later. It is edited by Riese from eight MSS better than the Cuiacian, three of the 9th century, three of the 10th, one of the 11th, and one of the 12th: the best of these, and the only one of which he professes to give a full collation, is C, Aug. 167 at Karlsruhe.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1918

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page 31 note 1 bilibre is the ablative used by the other writers (all of them late) who make bilibris a substantive; but bilibri cannot be deemed incorrect in view of bipenni and biremi.

page 33 note 1 ‘I will allow the publisher of a dictionary to know the meaning of a single word, but not of two words put together’ said Pope.

page 36 note 1 This parenthesis is not unnecessary, for Sir Norman Lockyer in his Primer of Astronomy confounds the two, and says on p. 61 that the Moon is overtaken by the Sun every 27⅓ days. The mean synodic time is in truth more than 29½ days.