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Agricola 24.2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Nicholas Reed
Affiliation:
University of St. Andrews

Extract

Tacitus is writing about Ireland. In 1967 Ogilvie commented, ‘In melius cannot be taken either with differunt, since it contradicts haud multum, nor with cogniti, since it cannot be imagined that Tacitus was so ignorant of the truth as to suppose that Ireland was better known than England.’ He therefore followed earlier editors in deleting in melius as a possible interpolation by ‘patriotic Irish monks’.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1976

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References

1 De Vita Agricolae, ed. Ogilvie, R.M. and Richmond, Sir Ian (1967), 237. n. 3.Google Scholar

2 JRS 59 (1969), 267.Google Scholar

3 Loeb Tacitus, Vol. i (revised 1970), 70,Google Scholar