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Virg. Gloss. 469, 17 ?) ; 21 Vehit (190, 15) ; 31 Veretrum (192, 11 ?) ; 55 Veluti
(191,21?).
VI- (p. 336): 4 Virgiiltiiin (192, 31) ; 5 Virguncuk (192, 33) ; 8 Vibex
(193, 1); 11 Vim (193, 7) ; 17 Viocuius (194, 8).
VO- (p. 336): 28 Vola (195, 28); 29 Voti\'um (195, 26); 34 Voluci-es
(195, 36-37) ; 36 Volutat (195, 30) ; 37 Vortex (190, 7).
UL- (p. 336): 48 Uliginosus (194, 45) ; 49 Ululae (194, 44).
UR- (p. 337): 6 Urbs (196, 1).
US- (p. 337) : 9 Uspiam (196, 8) ; 10 Usquam (196, 9).
UT- (p. 337) : 22 Utpote (196, 23).
If the Abolita items were taken from a composite Abstr.-
Abol. glossary like the (early) eighth century Vatican MS. to
whose apograph the above references are made, the division-line
between Abol. and Abstr. items must have been often obscured
(of. Journal of Philology, xxxiv 267 sqq.). The nature of the
Abolita MS. used for the collection and the exact position of
the Abstrusa and the Abolita material are details which must
remain somewhat uncertain until these two glossaries have been
thoroughly investigated. That investigation will, in its turn,
receive great help from our glossary, since the Erfurt MS. remains
(almost throughout) at the AB-stage of arrangement, whereas
our oldest MSS. of Abstrusa have advanced (almost throughout)
to the ABC-stage. That the Abolita gloss (83, 22) Glebo : rusticus,
arator, came to England in a French MS. (with
Glebra: rustice
arator) seems certain. For the compiler of EE ii recast the gloss
so, Glebra: arator lingua Gallica (Ep. 11 A 11).
The Virgil items are treated in Class. Quart, xii 171. They
appear to be marginalia of an English MS. of Virgil, marginalia
fer more freely used for AflF. and Erf.- than for Corp. Thus of
the many glosses in the Virgil batches of the I-chapter of Aflf.
only seven appear in Corp. But since these seven agree, word
for word, with the AfF. items (I 15 Ictus: percussus; I 18 Id
metuens: hoc timens; 1 51 Iliacis campis: Trojanis campis; I 246
In occasu: in fine; I 276 In bre\aa: in inaccessibilia ; I 277 In-
cumbere: superruere; I 279 Incute: inmitte) it is clear that the
two compilers had the same marginalia to draw upon. The com-
piler of Corp. restricted himself to more diflScult phrases: the
was less fastidious.
compiler of Afi". (like the compiler of Erf-)
Absolute certainty may be claimed for unmistakably Virgilian