Abstract
This paper aims at proposing a solution for the lexis abortio of the prose introduction within AL 16a R², provided with cruces by Baehrens, Schenkl and Damico, and replaced with the form Mavortio by Riese on the basis of an amendment by Iuretus. Taking into acconut the palaeographical peculiarities of the cod. Parisinus Latinus 10318, and the composition of the Salmasian anthology, which gathers many poems by African grammarians often committing themselves to sophisticated and bold poetical lusus, this paper proposes the restitution of the sequence ab orthio, with reference to the metrical foot composed by five short syllables (described by the grammarian Diomedes), matching the acclamation ‘Maro iunior!’ in the same prose introduction to AL 16a R².
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