| [871,] 872. Latin Fragments. Find an explanation of the colors displayed in the Greek text here. |
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| 5.9 x 7 cm. | [Sixth century.] |
| We have not been able to identify the two following fragments in Latin, and print them here in the hope that some of our readers may be more successful.... 872 is a small piece from a vellum leaf of a book, containing on one side the beginning and on the other the ends of a few lines, written in good-sized and rather ornate uncials which may be referred to the sixth century. S at the beginning of the line is made rather tall; the same letter is combined with a U at the end of l. 6 in order to save space. Whether the fragment is to be classed as prose or verse is doubtful. The scanty remains, so far as they go, would suit hexameters, and the lines differ considerably in length, but that is not seldom the case in Latin prose MSS. It does not seem to be Virgil; but no good word occurs to provide a clue. ["This is not in Virgil, not in Ovid, not in Lucretius, not in Probus, not Juvenal. R.C.H."] |
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| 5. Or possibly ] .eri, but the appears of the i is probably due to the penetration of ink from the other side, the vellum being thin. 11. The letter after s may also be e or o. |
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