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PART II 67
UR- (p. 337): 7-8 Urna (196, 5).
US- (p. 337): 12 Usta (196, 12); 13 Usquam (196, 18).
UT- (p. 337): 17 Ut reor (196, 36) ; 18 Utitur (196, 33) ; 24 Viaticum
(192, 18?).
The next problem is the analysis of what we have called the
second portions of Erf-, although in our ninth century MS. they do
not always keep their place. We may begin with the items which
offer most certainty, the items taken from the Abolita Glossary
Of Abolita we have (practically) only two
(or an epitome of it).
MSS., and these are mere copies of the same original, so that their
consensus does not go for much. Our glossaries undoubtedly con-
tain many genuine Abolita items which do not appear in these
two MSS.; but since this source has not been drawn upon by the
compilers so freely as the Abstrusa source, we have not so con-
vincingly long batches of Abolita items to appeal to, and a claim
to be an Abolita gloss must often remain doubtful until that
glossary has been fully investigated. At present
we know that
Virgil glosses predominated in it (cf Weir in Class. Quart, xii 22),
also Festus glosses (see Joum. Phil, xxxiv 267), Terence glosses
'
(cf. Gnueg de glossis Terentianis cod. Yaticani 3321,' Jena, 1903),
and so on. The Virgil glosses came from the marginalia of a
Spanish (?) MS. of Virgil, marginalia used also for the Virgil
Glossary printed by Goetz in C. G. L. iv (pp. 427 sqq.), and are
usually distinguishable from the Virgil glosses taken by the com-
pilers of Erf ^, AfF., Corp. and (seldom) EE from the marginalia of
an English (?) MS. of Virgil. The occasional Terence glosses in
Erf.'^, even when they do not appear in the two extant Abolita
MSS., may perhaps be regarded as Abolita material. (For an
account of them see Class. Quart, xii 178.) Abolita Festus glosses
preserved in the English group, but omitted in these two, offer
more difficulty. They are not always distinguishable from Festus
items of Philoxenus or early Latin glosses of pseudo-Placidus ;
and require more space for discussion than this publication can
allow. Here I will indicate all these doubtful claimants to Abolita
provenance by putting the symbol between inverted commas
of the older of the two extant MSS. of
(' Abol.'). Goetz' apograph
Abolita, a MS. of the (early) eighth century, is printed in
C G. L. IV, pp. 4-198 (the portions enclosed in square brackets).