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Three Words of Ennius
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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In Corp. Gloss. Lat. V. 435–490 Goetz published excerpts from the A A glossary. Further interesting items were published by C. Theander in Eranos XXIII (1925) 51–61, 167–176. The complete glossary is now being prepared for the press, and Professor W. M. Lindsay has kindly communicated to me some of the new items which may possibly contain quotations from classical authors. The most interesting of them is the following:
MA 2 ‘Mabortia res quae ad pugnam pertinet unde moenia funduntur vel res Martia.’
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page 114 note 1 The Corpus glossary gives us a variant of this item (M 62 ‘Mavortia res quae ad Mavortem pertinet’). Cf. C.G.L. V. 373, 22.
page 114 note 2 The words ‘vel res Martia’ may hide ‘Mavortia'; but they are more likely to be an alternative interpretation of the lemma. In the latter case we might be tempted to read'Martis,’ or ‘vel [res] Martia.’
page 114 note 3 For the danger of such plunges, cf. Heraeus, (Arch. lat. Lexikogr. VI. [1889] 556Google Scholar) on a sug-gestion of Baehrens.
page 114 note 4 Cf. Lindsay's, edition of Abolita in Glossaria Latina IIIGoogle Scholar.
page 114 note 5 The Liber Glossarum contains three glosses on Aen. I. 276: MA 926 ‘Mavortia moenia’: Roma[m] dicit'; MA 927 ‘Mavortia moenia: Martia, id est Romana palatia’; MA 928 ‘Ma-vortia: belligerosa.’ But these are probably taken from Virgil Marginalia (as the label of 926 definitely indicates). The long gloss on Ma-vortius Campus (MA 929) is from a scholium on Aen. VI. 872, derived by way of the fuller Abstrusa.
page 115 note 1 The items in Placidus (V. 34, 4 ‘nepos: luxuriosus’) and Lib. Gloss. (NE 331 ‘nep<o?> tibus: luxuriosis’) are apparently from another source. Cf. schol. Hor. epod. I. 34.
page 116 note 2 The joke depends upon the fact that nine was the orthodox number of diners.
page 116 note 3 The only gloss directly related to this line of Virgil, is Gloss. Verg. IV. 467Google Scholar, 15 ‘Trames: via transversa’; but cf. Lib. Gloss. TR 91.
page 116 note 4 There are three other items the AA glossary which may possible hide citations; but their claims are not strong: (1) S 811 = C.G.L.V.483, 28) ‘Spiris exutis (-tus?): nudis (nodis).’ with which may be compared items of Placidus, Abavus, and the First Amplonian. The lemma may be a fragment of a citation from a scholium on Aen. II. 217 (scarcely from schol. Geo. II. 154). (2) VI. 367 ‘Viantes: ambulantes’ (= Lib. Gloss. VI. 18, where it is labelled ‘de glossis’). Cf. Lib. Gloss. VI. 19: ‘iter facientes’; and Abavus VI. 4: ‘pergentes ambulantes.’ Apart from the fact that ‘vio’ is a late word, we cannot be sure that the AA item is not e.g. part of a longer form of the Abolita item ME 2 ‘Meantes: ambulantes.’ Cf. the cross references in my edition of Abavus at VI. 4. (3) U 570 ‘Vocis praeconii: laudem regalem’ (= C.G.Z.V. 489, 64). Cf. Abavus VO 2 (‘voce[s] praeconum: laude’), Ab Absens (IV. 426, 35 ‘voci vel voce praeconum. vel -ium: laudem’), and Corpus Gloss. U 264 (‘vocis praeconio: laudem’). Probably all these items derive from a note on Aen. V. 245, and their lemmas are corruptions of Virgil's words (‘magna praeconis voce’). ‘Regalem,’ which is peculiar to AA, may have been suggested by the context of this line of Virgil.