A Dozen Lucretian Emendations
David Butterfield
In this article, twelve new emendations are offered on the text of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. At 1.454 non tactus is proposed for unparalleled intactus; at 2.99 et partim suggested awkward pars etiam; 2.258 quomque (late-Republican cumque) advanced quemque; 2.615 metrically problematic inuenti sint altered to inueniantur; 2.733 unique use nigrant dispensed with by reading expected nigra sunt; 3.267 tamen made more naturally adversarial as tamen; 3.774 ne fessa Lucretian defessa (reading earlier in line); 4.160 unusual feminine celer (his) celeris; 4.306 (331) difficult gerund insinuando changed gerundive insinuandis; 4.318 (343) multisque replaced idiomatic multoque; 5.323 stark phrase deminui debet recreari reordered recreari; finally, 6.266 uementes read otiose uenientes. The discussion proceeds basis universally accepted stemma, namely that three Carolingian manuscripts (O, Q, S) sole textual authority. than fifty surviving Renaissance ultimately derive from O, but they remain a fertile source conjectures.
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