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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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RUTILIUS NAMATIANUSR is dated by ^'essereau a quarter of a centuryafter V, i.e. in 1530, as he holds \^ to be Sannazaro'scopy. Hosius, who collated R in R/i. Mus. (1896),vol. li, inferred that it was written <strong>with</strong>in 30 or 40years of the discovery of Rutilius' poem in 1493.°The corruptions shared by V <strong>and</strong> R prove theircommon descent, but R cannot have come fromPhaedrus' copy (represented in the editio princepsB), because R sometimes preserves the true readingin contrast <strong>with</strong> V <strong>and</strong> B. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, aconsensus of V <strong>and</strong> R virtually establishes a readingin the lost codex Bobiensis of the eighth century." The comparative value of V <strong>and</strong> R is hard to estimate.Keene points out that while R has the advantage in I. 178tenet, 211 curae, 235 largo, 265 lymphas, 461 algam, 552utranique, V has the superiority in I. 22 viiser<strong>and</strong>a, 232 Inui,317 ternis, 573 Elide, II. 62 propositum. R certainly has seriousdisfigurements due to one or other of its three h<strong>and</strong>s.Recently L. Bartoli (Athenaeum ix. 3, 1931), writing on the twocodices, has awarded the palm to the Vienna manuscript.763

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