Abstract
The present text of Livy's Fourth Decade rests upon two main lines of tradition: first, the eleventh-centuryBambergensiswith fourteenth–fifteenth centuryrecentioresand Gelenius' notes (1535) of the lostSpirensis; secondly, Carbachius' recording (1519) of the lostMoguntinus. This paper is concerned with the effect which more recent knowledge of the archetype of the first tradition may have upon emendation of the text. In the light of uncial fragments discovered at Bamberg in 1904 Traube showed thatBambergensisis a direct copy of the fifth-century MS. which they represent. At one step we are back in the world of late Roman scholarship, and one may correctBambergensisin terms of the copying of continuous uncial script.
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