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PART II 81
I Anglosaxon. Until proof of any additional source has been produced
we may use the argument: "This item appears in the
Glossae Nominum; therefore it must be a Philoxenus item,"
provided
that we substitute for the word 'must' some milder
form of expression. And we may explain the glossary's title-
heading: NUNC ALIAE XIII (xvi ?) EXIGUAE (scil. glossae, i.e.
•glossaries') secuntur 'Here follow other thirteen small lists,'
by supposing that the compiler found thirteen separate
lists of
nouns, all culled from the Philoxenus Glossary: nouns 1. in -a,
2. in -Mm, 3. in -ua, 4. in -o, 5. in -as, 6. in -or, 7. in -er, 8. in -ur,
9. in -is, 10. in -es? 11. in -x, 12. in -ns, 13. in -en. (Or we may
make them sixteen, by adding lists of nouns in, let us say, -al,
-ar, -an.) These thirteen lists or glossaries he threw into one
and arranged the mass in AB-order. (For other, less probable
explanations see Class. Rev. 31, 192, Class. Quart. 11, 195.) Loewe
used two MSS. (of which one is no longer extant), both of them
transcripts of a fragmentary exemplar (A-L) of this glossary.
Goetz (in C. G. L. ii, pp. 563-597) has ventured on a partial and
precarious supplement of the rest (L-U) with the help of a late
'omnium gatherum' collection in which items from a full copy
of this
glossary are mixed up with items culled from other
sources. Goetz' additions to Loewe's text must therefore be used
with great caution.
As a specimen of the third Erfurt Glossary we may take
the items with Anglosaxon interpretations (cf Sweet, O. E. T.
pp. 109-110):
(Cyrillus glos.ses
are cited in their Philoxenus form. The lost MS.
collated by Deycks is used to supply the gaps in Erf.^ and to correct its
readings.)
P. 563, 43 Abusus : foruerit (Philox. 6, 3 Ab. : anoxpriaa^jievoi) ; P. 564,
23 Adfectuosus : amabilis, lelniendi Saxonice (Cyrill. 442, 29 Adf. : (rvfiira-
ftjs); P. 565, 9 Aedituus: templi vel aedis minister, rendegn (e.g. Philox.
11, 47 Aed. : vtmKopos) ; 20 Aequimanus: hylipti Saxonice (Cyrill. 402, 29
Ac : ntpibf^ios) ; 43 : Alga herba marina, uar (Cyrill. 260, 31 Al. : ; ^pvov
473, 45 Al. : ^Ckos) ; P. 566, 2 Alveus :
genus
vasis, trog (e.g. Cyrill. 425, 65
Al. : jTvfXos); 8-9 Aleator: tebleri, Alea: tejil (Philox. 14, :36 Aleator :
KOTTKTTijs, Kv^fvrqs ; 14, 32 Alea : kottos, kv^os, KVjSeia) 19 Admissarius :
;
•toeda et homo for(nicator) (e.g. Cyrill. 348, 66 Adm. : ktjXodv, 6 firi,3aipv
Irrnos, possibly with citation of Cicero Pis. 69 admissarius iste; ; [Not 25-26
L.G.
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