Tuesday, June 10, 2025
A Locus Desperatus
Plautus, Mercator 17, in Wolfgang de Melo's Loeb Classical Library edition:
Friedrich Leo, "Epistula Plautina," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 38 (1883) 1-29 (at 17):
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†per mea per conatus sum uos sumque inde exilico.†Here are some attempts to restore the line.
17 per mea per conatus sum uos sumque inde exilico B, per me perconatus sum uossumque inde exilico CD, alii alia
Friedrich Leo, "Epistula Plautina," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 38 (1883) 1-29 (at 17):
rem eampse ecfatus sum orsusque inde exilicoW.M. Lindsay, "Some Plautine Emendations," Journal of Philology 26 (1899) 279-299 (at 202-203):
mea praeconatus peruorsum inde exilicoP.J. Enk in his edition of Plautus' Mercator (non vidi):
meam praeconatus rem inde exorsus sum ilicoH. Heuvel, "Ad Plautinas Comoedias Elucubrationes," Mnemosyne 4.1 (1936) 43-47 (at 47):
per me conatus summos sum index ilico
