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Glosses on Priscian (St. Gall).

P. 40b

Et puto, hanc esse rationem, quod oportet compara­tiuum una syllaba uincere genetiuum positiui, nisi sint anomala¹, ut ‘teneri tenerior²’…   necesse est inter duas uocales positam i transire in uim conso­nantis, quod in Latinis dictio­nibus semper fere patitur cum inter duas uocales inuenitur uim suam³ seruantes. Hoc autem ideo dixi, quia u post q uel post g posita saepe ante i hoc non facit⁴, quippe amittens uim suam, ut ‘nequior⁵’ ‘pinguior⁶,’ quod nisi fiat, con­tinguit … pares esse syllabas genetiuo positiui cum nomina­tiuo com­paratiui⁷ uel hiatum intolle­rabilem fieri tribus uocalibus per tres syllabas continue positis nulla con­sonante media, si dicamus ‘piior,’ ‘arduior.’ Quod ne fiat⁸, non sunt ussi⁹ eorum com­paratiuis. Plerique assumunt igitur ‘magis’ aduerbium et usum com­paratiui complent, ut ‘magis pius¹⁰ hic quam ille’: uetus­tissimi tamen com­paratiuis etiam huius­ce­modi est¹¹ sunt quando usi¹². Cato dixit: quod iter longius arduius­que¹³ erat a curia. Idem ad populum de triumpho: asperrimo atque arduis­simo¹⁴ aditu. Pacuuius^[1] in Medo: mulier egregis­sima¹⁵ forma. M̃.¹⁶ Cato in oratione … exercitum

P. 41a

meliorem, industri­iorem¹ facit.’   …ut in me indus­triior² sis quam in te.

Sunt autem et alia in ‘us’ terminantia, ex quibus coraparatiua supra dictam regulam non seruant² et dicuntur in­aequalia. Quorum quaedam habent i breuem⁴ uocalem ante ‘or’…   ‘Plus’ quoque⁵

P. 40b

1: nephriagoldai   2: is riagoldasón   3: aṅgutass   4: tairm­thechtas^[2] for · i ·   5: andgidiu ·   6: nihed sin ⁊ it riagoldai sidi   7: noch ní cóir son acht corop máa inóenṡillaib incomparit issed aschóir   8: ménogud inna teora ṅguttae immalle ·   9: ní arrbar­tatar bith   10: goiriu ·   11: ata   12: intan ara­rubar­tatar^[3] bith   13: ɔeperr arduius ·   14: is foluss dún tra as­riagoldu leosom nad ṁbíet cid intṡuperlati huare nadṁbiat na^[4] compariti · ·   15: do­thaidbse ṡuperlait huandí as egregius egregior   16: nicert ind ḟlescsa huasind · m · reliqua

P. 41a

1: Casianus in · x collatione dicit · industrius—.i. léir^[5]—appetitor   2: leriu   3: .i. riagol tormaig · or · forsin­genitin ut docti doctior ·   4: riagolsón   5: cid plús

P. 40b

2. this is regular.   3. their vocalism.   4. the passage to i.   6. it is not that (the transi­tion of i to a consonant) and (yet) these are regular.   7. yet this is not right—only that the compara­tive be greater by one syllable than the genitive of the positive, this is what is right.   8. the hiatus of the three vowels together.   12. when they used.   13. so that arduius is said.   14. it is clear to us that it is more regular with them (arduus etc.) that there will not be even the super­latives, because the compara­tives do not exist.   15. to shew a super­lative from egregius, egregior.   16. this line over the m is not right etc.

P. 41a

3. i.e. the law of adding ‑or to the genitive, as docti, doctior.   4. this (is the) rule.   5. even plus.

1. MS. Pacubius
2. the first h over the line
3. MS. ararubatar
4. na for ind?; but comparit and superlait, which were original­ly masculine, seem after­wards to be feminine, cf. B. Ball. 321^a 11, 12
5. written over industrius, in the same hand