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Sceparnio's ‘Raincoat’ in Plautus, Rudens 516

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. T. Von S. Bradshaw
A. T. Von S. Bradshaw
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University of Durham
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What is the dry garment which Sceparnio offers to the sea-soaked Charmides? First of all, there is doubt about the spelling of the word. The Palatine tradition is tigillum, though T has tixillum; the Ambrosian palimpsest is provokingly defective at this point and Studemund was unable to determine whether the vowel is e or i. Since the beginning of the sixteenth century editors have chosen to print tegillum, being influenced by notes preserved in the collections of two grammarians—Nonius and Paulus. I quote these from Lindsay's Teubner editions.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , December 1973 , pp. 275 - 278
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1973

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page 277 note 1 ‘Nonius, Tegillum, diminutivum a tigno, alias a tecto. fortasse demonstrat fustem, quo verberari solebat’ (Paris, 1576).

page 277 note 2 As well as making the usual references to Festus and Nonius, Taubmann cites Apuleius (Met. 9. 12). In his Verisimilia (Antwerp, 1582), ii. 5 Guilielmus had proposed that tegili should be altered to tegillo, an improbable emendation which continues to burden the apparatus of modern editions (e.g. Budé, Paravia, Teubner).