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Codices Prisciani.

p. 249^b [marg. inf.] spiritui sancto semper dignissima gloria. For sigla scattered through the manuscript see Nigra, Rel. Celt. 27. Two Irish quatrains and one poem written on the margin are printed below, p. 290. For the Latin poems in the codex, one of which is in praise of Bishop Gunthar of Cologne, see Nigra, Rel. Celt. 6 sq., Traube, Roma Nobilis 51 (347), Poet. Carol. iii. 238 sq.

As we have seen, the codex was probably written about the middle of the ninth century. The date of the Irish glosses has been much disputed; sometimes they have been considered earlier, sometimes later than Ml., and opinions have varied according as attention has been directed to one point or another^[1]. The explanation of the fluctuation of opinion is that the collection of glosses is not homogeneous, but comes from various sources and is of a varying antiquity^[2].

With regard to the relation of the Irish glosses to the Latin text it is important to note a large number of instances in which the Irish clearly explains the corrupt Latin of the manuscript. Such are libralibus 1^a 1, auctori 7^b 11, pudicitia Penelopae 29^a 8, ciclasias 32^b 12, capsa 36^a 8, curta 57^a 6, aut amatoriae 63^b 7, teretes 66^a 22, excipiuntur 67^a 12, abriza 73^a 4, causdico 138^a 12, uisionem 149^b 5, nomina 156^b 6, opheogenistum 181^a 4, potest 189^b 3, retransit quae 199^b 1, passeris 203^a 20, pasiua—liquefiunt 209^b 19–21. At 155^a 1 it would seem as though the glossator had knowledge of a reading αἰτοπάθειαν. At 191^a 3 he was apparently acquainted with the true reading.

Instances of misinterpretation of the Latin will be found at 15^b 11, 17^b 13, 20^a 4, 24^a 9, 13, 36^b 4, 38^a 6, 49^b 8, 57^a 7, 8, 9, 59^b 14, 60^a 4, 62^b 8, 64^a 18, 67^a 5, 92^a 1, 95^a 6, 139^a 1, 144^a 3, 146^b 7, 154^b 1, 185^b 7, 188^b 1, 217^b 3.

The authority most frequently cited is Isidore, 13^b 2, 47^b 7, 49^b 16, 20, 52^a 11, 53^a 12, 20, 95^a 1, 96^a 3, 96^b 2, 106^b 12, 111^b 5, 152^a 2, 159^a 7. Others are Cicero^[3] 7^b 15, 73^a 4, 92^b 1, 102^a 2^a, 106^b 14, 107^a 3, Beda 35^a 12, 49^b 8, 124^b 6, Orosius 23^b 4, 57^a 8, 95^a 7 (?), Virgilius 106^b 13, 143^b 7, 152^b 1, Ambrosius 96^b 7, Boeotius 57^a 7, Cassianus 41^a 1, 131^b 1, C˘^[4] 8^b 5, 190^b 3, Com˘ 100^b 2, Dionysius Thrax 18^a 4, Gaudentius 70^a 15, Hieronymus 62^b 2, Hono˘ 7^b 14, Lactantius 22^a 2, Maximianus 136^a 2, in libro Niciae 65^b 16, Papirinus 4^a 9, Polibius Medicus 49^b 22, Probus 155^b 2, …pho˘ 47^b 6. Two Irish ‘erratici’ are mentioned in abbreviation Mael˘ and Cua˘ 31^b 12, and probably a Mail Gaimrid 183^b3^[5]. A manuscript called the Liber Romanus is referred to 4^a 12^[6].

1. Cf. Thurneysen Rev. Celt. vi. 318; Pedersen, KZ. xxxv. 316; Strachan, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1899–1901, pp. 47, 57, Rev. Celt. xx. 304 sq.; Zimmer, KZ. xxxvi. 471; Thurneysen, KZ. xxxvii. 55.
2. For a detailed proof of this from linguistic evidence see Celt. Zeitschr. iv. 470 sq.
3. Probably the obscure grammarian cited frequently by Vergilius Maro: possibly (as Prof. Goetz of Jena suggests) the author of the so-called Synonyma Ciceronis, ed. Mahne, Leiden, 1850.
4. We have not been able to verify the references, so that the name is doubtful.
5. Cf. vol. i. p. xviii.
6. Cf. Hertz I. xv.