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oblitus sum. An Abstrusa item, (71, 5) Extimus: extremus (cf.
Erf. 292, 35; Aff. 511, 3), had been corrupted in the MS. to Ex-
tronus: extremus. While AfF. faithfully reproduces this corrupt
variant (514, 23 Extronus: extremus), Erf makes out of it (292,
8) Exthronus: nihil regni partem habet (-ens?) aut extremus.
The comparison of Samson to Hercules appears to be this com-
piler's addition to the Abolita item, (Erf 300, 12) Hercule juratio
est vel vere; dura femina et ilium periit (for perdidit), de casu
dictum est mortis ejus (cf Abol. 85, 50 Hercule juratio est, id
est vere).
We may now begin an analysis of the Second Erfurt Glossary.
And, first, of what we have called its first portions, viz. material
drawn from the Abstrusa Glossary. It has been shewn else-
where (Class. Quart, xi 121 and 127) that the MS. of Abstrusa
used was of a different family from the MSS. used by Goetz, and
often preserved the full form of an Abstrusa item where they
exhibit a reduced form. Therefore items which appear in the
portions of Erf^ assigned to Abstrusa material, but not in our
extant MSS. of Abstrusa, must not be claimed for intruders.
They may be genuine Abstrusa items (e.g. of C. G. L. v 295,
29-31, Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, Flamen Quirinalis, only
the first item is preserved in our extant MSS.).
Leaving such details to a future investigation
of the Abstrusa
Glossary, we may content ourselves here with the briefest possible
exhibition of the Abstrusa items in Erf- (C. G. L. v 259 sqq.).
For their source is indisputable and their various appearances
in Abstr., AflF., Erf ^
(with Ep.) can be easily found with the help
of the Thesaurus Glossarum of Goetz ; also those in Corp., with
the help of the Index at the end of my new edition. The
Abstrusa reference is added to shew how far Erf- reflects the
order of Goetz' apograph of the oldest extant MS. of the Abstrusa
Glossary (C. G. L. iv 3-197). (The
the SU- to TO- sections is lost.)
leaf of the Erfurt MS. with
AB-: 259, 18-34: 18 Abstrusa (Abstr. 3, 1); 19 Abducit (Abstr. 4, 2):
20 Abstemius (Abstr. 3, 4) ; 21 Abactus (Abstr. 3, 3) ; 22 Abrogate (Abstr.
3, 5) ; 23 Absistit (Abstr. 3, 6) ; 24 Abaso (Abstr. 3, 7) ; 25 Abit (Abstr.
3, 8); 26 Abutitur (Abstr. 3, 10); 27 Abutimur (Abstr. 3, 11) ; 28 Abusi-
tatus (Abstr. 3, 12); (29 an Abol. intruder); 30 Abigit (Abstr. 4, 4);