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Diminutives in -Culus. Their Metrical Treatment in Plautus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

W. M. Lindsay
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The Classical Review , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1892 , pp. 87 - 89
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1892

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page 88 note 1 The word passerculum occurs only once again in Plautus, in v. 694 of this play. Here the MSS. give:—

hirúndinem, monérulam, putillum, passerculum, which will not scan. The change to passerculum putillum (Goetz and Lowe) is simpler than that to putillulum passérclum.

page 89 note 1 The two apparent exceptions are Rud. 169, Pers. 524 (in the Ambrosian palimpsest); but in both of these the editors read periclo.