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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..