128. II. Auu. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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In order to recover the text of Tacitus
in cap. xl. of the ' Gennania,' six classes of
scribal divergences, which are represented in
the passage of eighteen words quoted at the
head of this note, must be recognized and
studied. These classes are :
1. misgrouping of minims ;
2. g/n confusion ;
3. i/r confusion ;
4. confusion of d with cl, el, ol, il, ul, and
the converse ;
5. n/s confusion; and
6. i/l confusion.
I propose to take these classes one by one, and to give instances from printed editions of MSS. written between the eighth and four- teenth centuries. It has been my custom on previous occasions, in ' N. & Q.' and elsewhere, to give exact documentation of instances of scribal error upon which I have relied. But, because of the number I must now adduce, that would take up too much space, and I beg to be excused. Any student who has doubts of a particular case can be furnished with the documentation of it on application made direct to me.
The double colon : : stands for " mis- representing." The elevated letters in italic t/pe are the expansions of original com- pendia. Hypothetical forms are denoted by an asterisk.
1. misgrouping cf minims :
i. misticie : : iusticise
ii. pineatur : : p^Weatur
iii. sum : : Finn
i\. nuithones : : *niuthones
2. g/n confusion :
a. g : : n :
v. urbs leogis Urbs Leonis
vi. pegneltun Penneltun
vii. dyflig Dyflin
\iii. oghgul Ongul [*o<jngul]
ix. reudigni *Reudinni
b. n : : g :
x. reudigni Reudinni
xi. bellonothus Bellogothus
xii. nuithones Giuthones
(cp. No. iv.)
3. i/r confusion :
a. i (or a minim) : : r :
xiii. buigundus xiv. cair pens xv. eudoses
b. r : : i (or a minim)
xvi. cair cuscerat xvii. Hebrides xviii. Jiurthones
Burgundus
Cair Peris
- eridoses
Cair Custeint Hebudes Giuthones (cp. No. xii.)
confusion of d with cl, el, ol, il, ul :
a. cl : : d :
xix. clanouenta
xx. cloarius
xxi. clingueillus
b. d : : cl :
xxii. eradonas xxiii. dustnon
c. el : : d :
xxiv. elementorum
d. d : : el :
xxv. axdodunum xxvi. secundus
e. d : : ol, il, ul : xxvii. ced
xxviii. camdoduno xxix. eudoses
5. n/s confusion :
a. n : : s :
xxx. mailronensibus xxxi. nunquam xxxii. unquam
b. s : : n : xxxiii. gestis xxxiv. cair ceisi
xxxv. uasa (uana) xxxvi. eudoses
6. i/l confusion :
a. I : : i (or a minim) : xxxvii. ullns
xxxviii. tralectus xxxix. militibus xl. ordolucas
b. i (or a minim) : : I
xii. decilnabat
xlii. aurinia
xliii. inniis
xliv. ad nnum
xlv. guanius
Danouenta
Doarius
Dinguallus
Heracleonas Cludnou
Demetorum
Uxelodunum scelus (> scdua)
ceol
Camuloduno
- eruloses
(cp. No. xv.)
Mailrosensibus
nusquam
usquam
gent is Cair Ceint uerba (uerua) Erulones (cp. No. xxix.^
unus
Traiectus
multibus
Ordouicas
declinabat
aliruna
Liunis
millium
Guallius (Wala>
The following is a synopsis of the particular results achieved :
A. reudigni : : Reudingi, ix., x.
B. eudoses : : Erulones, xv., xxix., xxxvi.
C. nuithones : : Giuthones, iv., xii., xviii.
These results, I submit, justify me in- emending the text of the ' Germania ' as follows :
"XL. Contra Langobardos paucitas nobilitat : plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti non per obseouium sed proeliis et periclitando tuti aunt. Reuaingi deinde et Aviones et Angli et Varini et Erulonea et Suardones et Giuthones fluminibus aut silvis muniuntur."
The Erulones are the Eruli ; cp. 11 S.. viii. 402, ' The Heruli in " Widsith." The Giuthones are the Geotas or Jutes..
