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Seneca's Letters: Notes and Emendations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Walter C. Summers
Affiliation:
Sheffield.

Extract

li. 1. tu istic habes Aetnam †et illuc nobilissimum Siciliae montem.

Chatelain's editum ac is almost certainly on the right road. But editum seems a little feeble: inclitum would be a good deal better, arid very easy palaeographically, if we bear in mind the probability of the first syllable's being absorbed in the last letter of Aetnam. But an adjective linked with a superlative like nobilissimum ought, if not itself a superlative, at any rate to have somewhat similar force: eximium would satisfy this condition. The confusion of i or single strokes of u and m with l is not uncommon in these MSS.: cp. esp. 47. 10, where all have illis for the necessary uis which Macrobius gives.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1909

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References

1 For the order cp. 83. 7 ‘subita aliqua et uniuersa uoce,’ Ira I. 16. 7 ‘sentiet leuem quemdam tenuemque motutn,’ Hel. 17. I ‘leuis aliqua desiderii nota.’