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The Textual Tradition of Livy 21–25

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Extract

The purpose of this article is to re-examine the more important extant manuscripts of Livy 21–25 with special reference to omissions and significant errors, and on this basis to try to establish their interrelationship in stemmatic form. A stemma for Books 26–30 has already been drawn up by Professor S. K. Johnson in O.C.T. vol. iv, but, since the tradition for those five books is slightly different from that of the first half of the third decade, it has seemed worth while to draw up a stemma for Books 21–25 independently. The manuscripts to be considered, and the sigla to be employed, are as follows:

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1958

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1 I wish to express my thanks to the Sheffield University Research Fund for their generous financial assistance towards the pre-paration of this article.

2 There are a number of readings in the Agennensis that at first sight might suggest the possibility of contamination with some source other than the Puteanus, but closer consideration leads to the conclusion that they are all emendative.

1 The O.C.T. app. crit. wrongly gives: Pupio Sicilia PR.

1 This appears to be one of the emendative readings in A mentioned in the footnote on p. 161.

1 I should like to thank Dr. A. H. McDonald of Clare College, Cabridge, for his advice and encouragement.