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PART I 5<br />
possible doubt that, for example, <strong>the</strong> gloss Mapalia : casae<br />
pastorum (Ep. 15 C 3) has actually come from a note on a<br />
certain line of Phocas (p. 428, 1. 3), <strong>the</strong> only occurrence of <strong>the</strong><br />
word in his grammar. The Leyden Glossar}' item (from <strong>the</strong><br />
Phocas section), Magalia : hyrae (§ 46, 37),<br />
is not needed in<br />
corroboration. (It refers to ano<strong>the</strong>r line in <strong>the</strong> same paragraph<br />
of Phocas— 428, 12—where <strong>the</strong> word magalia is also cited among<br />
<strong>the</strong> 'pluralia tantum.') The mere presence of <strong>the</strong> gloss in this<br />
unmistakeable Phocas-batch (not to speak of its place in <strong>the</strong><br />
batch) is enough to shew that it cannot come from any o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
source. Did it appear elsewhere in <strong>the</strong> glossary, we might<br />
maintain a doubt whe<strong>the</strong>r it might not have come from Virgil's<br />
line (Geo. iii, 340): raris habitata mapalia tectis; or even from<br />
a line of some o<strong>the</strong>r poet (e.g. Silius Italicus xvii, 89 ; Val,<br />
Flaccus ii, 460) or prose-writer (Sallust <strong>and</strong> Livy use <strong>the</strong> word)<br />
or from a passage of some o<strong>the</strong>r grammarian or from Festus. All<br />
doubt is removed by its position in <strong>the</strong> EE Glossary. Even in<br />
<strong>the</strong> case of so common words as merx <strong>and</strong> miis, we can refer<br />
unhesitatingly <strong>the</strong>se EE items to one particular<br />
sentence of one<br />
particular author.<br />
The Corpus Glossary everyone knows to have used much<br />
<strong>the</strong> same materials as <strong>the</strong> EE Glossary. But in <strong>the</strong> only MS.<br />
which has preserved it <strong>the</strong>se materials have been re-arranged<br />
in what is called AB-order. Instead of one large M-chapter we<br />
find a number of chapters: <strong>the</strong> MA-chapter, <strong>the</strong> ME-chapter,<br />
<strong>the</strong> Ml-chapter, <strong>and</strong> so on. Alphabetical re-shuffling<br />
like this<br />
may be effected smoothly <strong>and</strong> easily nowadays with our plenty<br />
of writing-material, but seventh or eighth century writers had<br />
to re-arrange as <strong>the</strong>y transcribed; <strong>and</strong>, since <strong>the</strong> order of a<br />
glossary's items was of no account, would leave any misplaced<br />
items without an attempt to transpose <strong>the</strong>m or to indicate <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
true position. Let us imagine oureelves to be transferring <strong>the</strong><br />
Phocas-batch of EE (or ra<strong>the</strong>r of its source) to a glossary<br />
arranged like Corpus. We should select lor <strong>the</strong> ^MA-chapter<br />
Mango, Matrix, Mapalia, Magistratus, Mango (again). Mars, Mas,<br />
all in this order ; for <strong>the</strong> ME-chapter Merx, Meio, Mergus, Merx<br />
(again); for <strong>the</strong> MU-chapter Mulio, Mugil, Muria, Murex, Mus.<br />
What do we actually find in Corpus ? In <strong>the</strong> MA-chapter :