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Disticha de Mensibvs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
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Trinity College, Cambridge.
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The twenty-four lines of this poem have been preserved only by the cod. Sangallensis 878 (variously assigned to saec. IX or IX-XI or XI-XII), whence it was edited in 1863 by K. SchenklSitzungsb. d. phil.-hist. Cl. d. kais. Akad. d. Wissensch. (Vienna) XLIII p. 71. A single line, the last, exists also in the cod. Bernensis 108 saec. IX. Fifteen survive in a MS of the 17th century now divided into two parts, Barberinus (or Barberinianus) XXXI 39 and Vaticanus 9135, the former containing the hexameters 3, 5, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and a spurious hexameter in lieu of 1, the latter the pentameters 2, 4,14,16,18, 20, 22, 24. The eight consecutive lines 6-13 are therefore missing from both ; and in this imperfect and interpolated form the poem was edited by Mommsen with Haupt's assistance inC.I.L. I p. 411.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 3-4 , June 1932, pp. 129 - 136
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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1 The seven figures of Feb. March, Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. were reproduced from Brux. by Bucherius, in his commentarius in Victorium Aquitanum (1633) pp. 275–88Google Scholar, and the whole series of twelve from Vindob. by Lambecius, in his bibl. Caesarea append. comment. 1. IV addit. I (1671) pp. 271–303Google Scholar. Strzygowski in his Calenderbildsr d. Chronogr. v. Jahre 354, Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. archaeol. Inst., Ergänzungsheft I (1888) gives some examples from all three MSS. The fasti are edited from Vindob. and Brux. by Mommsen, in C.I.L. I pp. 334–56Google Scholar (ed. 2 pp. 256–78).