THE HISTORY OF BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES RECONSIDERED: AN ANCIENT FRAGMENT RELATED TO PS.-PHILOXENUS (<i>P.VARS.</i> 6) AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
Eleanor Dickey
Abstract This article identifies a papyrus in Warsaw, P.Vars. 6, as fragment of the large Latin–Greek glossary known Ps.-Philoxenus. That glossary, published volume II G. Goetz's Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum on basis ninth-century manuscript, is by far most important bilingual glossaries surviving from antiquity, being derived lost works Roman scholarship and preserving valuable information about rare archaic Latin words. It has long been considered product sixth century a.d. , but dates to c. 200, internal evidence indicates that itself must be substantially older than copy. The Ps.-Philoxenus therefore not creation Late Antiquity Early Empire or perhaps even Republic. Large alphabetical order have existed earlier hitherto believed.
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