The Methods of Nonius Marcellus' Sources 26, 27 and 28

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given with Mercier's page numbers, are taken from W.M. Lindsay's Teubner edition (Leipzig, 1903); all references are to the initial line of a lemma. Fragments of Republican drama are cited from the third edition of O. Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1897-8), sometimes with references to more recent editions of individual authors. This paper will be followed in a subsequent issue of this journal by a series of notes and conjectures proceeding from its conclusions, under the title 'Some fragments of Republican drama from Nonius Marcellus' sources 26, 27 and 28', to which I here occasionally refer as 'Some fragments'. I am grateful to the Journal's referee and its editor for helpful suggestions on these papers. This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2 W.M. Lindsay, Nonius Marcellus' Dictionary of Republican Latin (Oxford, 1901). References to earlier studies of Nonius' methods can be had from H.D. Jocelyn, Gnomon 41 (1969), 43-4. 3 Subsequent corrections of Lindsay's description of Nonius' methods have not altered its basic claims; see W. Strzelecki, 'Ein Beitrag zur Quellenbenutzung des Nonius', in J. Irmscher et al., Aus der altertumswissenschaftlichen Arbeit Volkspolens (Berlin, 1959), 81-90, at 81-2; and most notably D.C. White, 'The method of composition and sources of Nonius Marcellus', Studi Noniani 8 (1980), 111-211. 4 W.M. Lindsay, 'De fragmentis scriptorum apud Nonium seruatis', RhM 57 (1902), 196-204 identified the instances in which the principle applies. Attempts to expand Lindsay's list of literary works that Nonius excerpted himself (see e.g. L. Rychlewska, 'De Nonii comoediarum Naeuianarum notitia',

On the Text and Interpretation of Accius 306-307 Dangel

“…In any case, the line would then mean: 'alas, he [or she] is 20 Lindsay 1901, 9, 45, and 100-101. 21 On the quotation practices of the author of the glosses in general, and on his method of quoting Republican verse in particular, see Welsh 2012, 829-834. 22 Ricciardi 1968292-293.…”