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A Test of the Spirensian Sources of Livy's Text in Books XXVI–XXX
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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It may be of interest to supplement the latter part of Professor Conway's article by a note applying the same standards to estimating the value of the other sources on which (together with Rhenanus' incomplete record) we have to rely for our knowledge of the Spirensian tradition. Apart from ‘L’ and Harl. 2684 (which is Spirensian only from xxix. 3. 15 to xxx. 21. 12) Luchs used for this purpose three partially Spirensian sources: (a) the one fourteenth-century and four fifteenth-century MSS whose archetype he called ‘R’ (to be called θ in the Oxford Text) (b) V, the fifteenth-century Vat. Pal. 876, and (c) the fifteenth-century Flor. Laur. lxxxix. inf. 1. The last mentioned may be dismissed as practically valueless and as supplying little more than new corruptions from an unusually contaminated intermediary. In addition to these deteriores Luchs used the Agennensis (Harl. 2493), but only for the Spirensian supplement in Book xxvi' (where the omission in N is not supplied by any corrector) and for the last part of Book xxx (where A like N contains a supplement). He did not deal at all with the Spirensian textual correctors in A.
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page 195 note 1 See C.Q. XI. No. 3, pp. 155–56.
page 195 note 2 The terminology is unsatisfactory, since A 7, A 8, A 9 (the Spirensian correctors) are earlier in date than A v (Valla), A 5, A 6; but since the latter have already been named by Professor Walters, they acquire a not wholly deserved priority in nomenclature.
page 198 note 1 These will appear in the critical notes of the forthcoming Vol. IV of the text of Livy.
page 198 note 2 This is hardly true in the passage which we have considered, but a glance at our notes in e.g. Book xxvii. will show how often A 7 gives a Spirensian correction where N 4 is (usually for good reasons) silent.
page 198 note 3 It might of course be conjectured that these fourteen errors were not existent in the branch of the Spirensian tradition which our five authorities used.