Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

TO PUBLILIUS SYRUS212 double-columned vellum sheets, of which themain contents are tractates, genuine or doubtful,bearing the name of Augustine. Immediately precedingthe " Proverbia " there is a page given to" Sententiae quorumdam philosophorum " and overtwo pages to excerpts from Cicero's De Divinatione.In a note near the end of the volume it is describedas " liber Sti. Cuthberti de Dunelm. ex procurationeffis Robti. de Graystan." Robert de Graystan was" electus " as bishop of Durham in 1333, but was notadmitted to the episcopate. The manuscript cannotbe said to possess independent value with regard toPublilius. Though written in well-formed letterswith decorated initials, it has not a few imperfectionsapart from unscannable lines and its mixture of proseand verse. Within the first 30 lines there occurblunders like the haplography of aut (6), a deo fordeo (22), actus sn du for aetas cinaedum (24), andcrinem for crimen (29). Of its total of over 450sententiae, the letters A to N have 313 sayings whichare mainly verse (though of the 45 under N aboutfour-fifths are prose). For the remainder, O to V,beginning " Omne peccatum actio est," material isdrawn entirely in prose from a work of uncertainauthorship, De Morihus. After the V sente?itiae therefollows a moral poem of about 120 hexameters by aChristian poet, beginningQuisquis vult vere Domino per cuncta placere,Hunc fugiens mundum totum cor vertat ad ilium.The text of Publilius is in this volume largely basedon Meyer's valuable edition of 1880: the mainalterations are noted. Lines accepted by Meyer atII