INTRODUCTION
gives the name of ψ, and as a result of his examination of them he has pointed out a number of passages in which the true reading is to be found in one or more of these MSS., and as many more in which their readings are to be preferred to those of P. For conspicuous instances of mistakes made by P in verbal forms see ix. 41, x. 312, xi. 184, xiv. 113.
Apart from all other MSS. stands the fragment, the palimpsestus Bobiensis now in the Vatican. It is assigned to the end of the fourth century, and contains xiv. 324-xv. 43. It sometimes agrees with P, sometimes with other MSS.
Lastly come the ancient Scholia called Σ, and preserved in P. They are very old and often indicate a true reading not in the MSS.[1]
In the year 1910, Dr. Frederick Leo brought out a fifth edition of Bücheler's text not differing much from the edition of 1893 except by recognising for the first time the genuineness of the passage in Sat. vi. (O 1-34, coming immediately after line 365) discovered in the Bodleian MS. by Mr. E. O. Winstedt in the year 1899. The more important of the changes introduced by Dr. Leo are mentioned in the critical notes.
- ↑ The above description of the MSS. of Juvenal is abbreviated from Professor Housman's Introduction, pp. vii to xi; see also pp. xvii sqq. and xxii sqq.
