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50 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
This example, taken from a section where the limited material
and the paucity of cognate items restrained the compiler (and
transcribers) from excessive re-shuffling, shews us that even Aff.
may offer some clue to the order of the common originals of Aff.
and Erf.l Whether a mathematician, dexterous at calculation of
chances, could evolve from a detailed comparison of the Aff order
and the order of Erf ^ the actual order of each of the two parentcollections,
I cannot say. My unmathematical brain reels at the
thought of the problem. But (as was pointed out in the Classical
Quarterly, xi 186) Aff gives us a most useful clue to the nature
of the second parent-collection. The Abstrusa MS. used by the
compiler had lost four leaves (= C. G. L. iv 87, 29-c. 99, 20)
between the HI- and the IN-sections, so that for this part
(C. G. L. IV 524, 46 sqq.) Aff. is wholly composed of this 'second
glossary' material. Virgil-batches appear, which follow the order
of the words' occurrence in the text of Virgil: e.g.
in the
I...A-section (p. 525) no. 41 InfAndum (Aen. 1, 251); 42 ImpAr
(Aen. 1, 475); 43 lAmdudum (?Aen. 1, 580); 44 In Arce (Aen.
3, 531); 45 InfAbricata (Aen. 4, 400); 46 lAm vertitur (Aen. 5,
626); 47 lAm validum minus (? Aen. 5, 716); 48 ImAgo (?Aen.
6, 695), etc. Other examples (from the I...E-section, the I...I-
section, the I...U-section) are given in Class. Quart, xi 186, from
which is quoted the following paragraph.
A clue to the source of these non-Abstrusa items is furnished
by an error of the archetype in the ca-words, the fusion of the
two glosses Catax and Consentaneum (491, 35 Catax: claudus a
coxa, Consentaneum: (conveniens, aptum.)).
Both are Abolita
glosses. On foil. 119-128 of Leyden 67 F is a fragmentary tran-
script (A-F) of a glossary which must be a representative
of the
source we are seeking ; for in it the gloss Catax is immediately
followed by the gloss Consentaneum. From the details furnished
by Loewe (Prodromus, p. 171) we see that it consisted of Virgi
glosses taken from the marginalia of a Virgil text (for Loew(
mentions their use of hie 'in this passage') and of Abolita glosses
etc. The fusion of the glosses Catax and Consentaneum become!
intelligible from Erf^ which offers '
Col tax' instead of Catax, thui
relegating the gloss to the CO-section and making it a possibL
neighbour of Consentaneum. (The two words are not neighbour