Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

f;TO PUBLILIIS SYRUSthe so-called " Seneca Collection," of which the bestmanuscripts go back to the ninth or tenth century,and are classed under 2 in the Sigla, belong 265 versesarranged in sequence by their initials from A to N.Of these, 159 are preserved in that collection alone.By the ninth century the latter half of the versesayingsfrom O to V had disappeared, and the collectionwas filled up with 149 prose sententiae from theso-called Senecan work De Morihus. The title thenimposed on the collection was Senecae senteniiae orSenecae proverbia : and in some manuscripts theseproverbs, wherein Publilius lay embedded butunnamed, were combined with works of Augustine.This is true of the codex Dunelmensis, brought earlyin the fourteenth century to Durham, which has beeninspected during the preparation of the presentvolume, and is described in a subsequent note. Inthe tenth century the latter half of the verse-sayingshad reappeared : and the IT collection, now representedby lines A to I, in the Palatino-\'aticanus(formerly Heidelbergensis), supplied 325 additionalverses. It was when 11 still contained the second halfof the sayings that a scribe in the eleventh centurycombined the texts of a 11 and a 2 manuscript into^, inserting any new verses from 11 after the prosesentences under each alphabetical letter, so that hismanuscript, F, the Frisingensis, is the most completecorpus of Publilian sententiae extant. To the 265 versesententiae of 2 it added 384, making a total of 649.Gretser's Ingolstadt edition of 1600, four years beforeCJruter, made use of the Frisingensis. The ZiirichCollection, Z, contains 132 sayings, including 50 notfound elsewhere : it is represented by Turicensis C.78 (tenth century), giving a set of sententiae C to V