A NOTE ON PLINY THE ELDER (<i>HN</i> 9.126)

Abstract The article argues for an emendation in Plin. HN 9.126. Modern editors are accustomed to print the text cum testa uiuas , adopting J. Hardouin’s conjecture for cum terra uitis , the reading transmitted in most manuscripts. Nevertheless, the overlooked manuscript reading contritis conchis allows us to deduce a palaeographically neater solution contritis if conchis is considered a gloss which entered the text .

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The Classical Quarterly
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2025-06-19
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838825100633
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Classical Antiquity Studies
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A NOTE ON PLINY THE ELDER (HN 9.126)

Mikhail Shumilin
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Classical Antiquity Studies
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A NOTE ON PLINY THE ELDER (HN 9.126)

Mikhail Shumilin
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Abstract The article argues for an emendation in Plin. HN 9.126. Modern editors are accustomed to print the text cum testa uiuas , adopting J. Hardouin’s conjecture for cum terra uitis , the reading transmitted in most manuscripts. Nevertheless, the overlooked manuscript reading contritis conchis allows us to deduce a palaeographically neater solution contritis if conchis is considered a gloss which entered the text .

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