W. M. Lindsay, An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation, Errors of Emendation, Grammatical corrections

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Sometimes it is the grammatical construction of the sentence which has been altered through being unintelligible to the scribe. The use of the ablative with facio, “offer sacrifice,” in Virg. E. iii. 77 “cum faciam vitula”, was not understood by copyists, who have changed vitula to vitulam. Similarly the Plautine use of the adverb was not recognised in Asin. 807, where quot pure habuerit has been altered to quot puras habuerit, with puras made to agree with the word in the previous part of the line, noctes.

An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation Based on the Text of Plautus. W. M. Lindsay. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. Macmillan. 1896.

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