W. M. Lindsay, An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation, Errors of Omission, Confusion with similar words

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The omission also of a syllable or a letter, though usually due to haplography (§ 3) or to the confusion of one word with another of similar appearance, e.g. filia for facilia (ch. v), or to the fact that the syllable was expressed by a contraction symbol, e.g. piratus for periratus (ch. vii. § 2), is occasionally merely a case of illiterate copying. In Virg. A. iv. 491, for example, MSS. offer descere for descendere; in G. iii. 4 im for jam; in G. iii. 154 arior for acrior; in A. vi. 708 indunt for insidunt.

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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