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80 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
see Classical Philology, xiii 9); and though we may make a;
rough-and-ready rule that the first portions of EE are the place-
for Hermeneumata items, and the second portions of Erf.^ for;
Philoxenus items, we cannot feel complete confidence. A useful]
clue is the presence of the word Graece, although this adverbappears
often in items of other provenance too: e.g. in the
Abstrusa item C. G. L. iv 41, 18 Coluber: serpens, ophis Graece.
Even a Greek word begins such an Abstrusa item as (iv 112, 39)
Malacia: mollities; Graecum est. We must remember that only
a very brief selection out of the huge original Philoxenus Glossary
was probably used by our compiler. It is not impossible that his.
'glossae verborum' and 'glossae
nominum' were constructed from
Philoxenus materials, for it is at the ends of the sections, the
places appropriate to the 'glossae verborum' and 'glossae nominum'
(with occasional Anglosaxon interpretations) that these
Philoxenus items seem to shew themselves most clearly. But
the 'second glossary' too seems to have had a Philoxenus thread
(cf the Philox. miswriting A[u]xillae in EE ii, Ep. 5 C 16, C.G.L.
V 346,41). It would not be difficult to exhibit Philoxenus clusters
of Erf^; but, since the identification of all-Latin items with bi-
lingual items can seldom be quite convincing,
refrain.
it seems better to-
Here we may turn (in fulfilment of the promise of this,
article's title) to consider the Third Erfurt Glossary (a frag-
ment, A-L),
the '
Glossae Nominum' (cf Class. Quart, xi 194 sq.).
The digression must be brief, for this glossary is not closely
connected with the others and has been already edited by Loewe i
(Leipzig, 1884), so far as an edition was possible
in his time,
Loewe has shewn that it follows an AB-order and that each
section exhibits in regular sequence batches of nouns of the-
same termination (first, nouns ending in -a; then, nouns endingin
-us; next, nouns ending in -iwi, and so on). And he has, we
may say, proved that its items come (ultimately) from the (full,,
original) Philoxenus Glossary, the Greek interpretations being
rendered (often absurdly' misrendered) in Latin, occasionally in
1 Thus the Philoxenus item (C. G. L. ii 14, 26) Albunea : AevKodia (pre-
sumably a Virgil or Horace gloss) appears as (C. G. L. v 590, 44)
visio !
Albunea: alba,