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 I m. 138 lampade •••• i m.) lampadae feruet, 2 m, 192 tunc, i m. 196 inguem, / m, 
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 It seems to me worth while to conclude this article by noting a few 
 instances where I have found the critical notes of Prof Housman's edition of 
 1905 incorrect on the readings of MSS other than P. His authorities are, 
 I fancy, mainly to blame. 
 
 Introd. p. ix, Florilegia Parisina 7646. The number is apparently wrong, nor 
 did I succeed in identifying the MS referred to. 
 
 Sat. iv. 25, Paris 9345, precium (not pretio). 
 
 vi. 285, Paris 7906, a crimine (not e crimine). 
 
 vii. 157, Paris 7906. The piece of the MS which would contain the word 
 * ueL is now absent, owing to damage by fire. It is almost impossible 
 that this loss has taken place since Forster's collation. 
 
 viii. 148, Vaticanus 2810, multo sufflamine (not sufflamine multo). 
 
 viii. 229, Paris 9345, menalippes; vel pi \in sup.] (not melanippes). 
 
 Lastly, in Sat. vii. 156, Ottobonianus 2884, Barberinus viii. 18, and Casanatensis 
 A. v. 27, all read * diuersa fronte,' which, as accounting for the readings both of P 
 and of ^t seems to me probably correct. 
 
 C. E. Stuart. 
 
THE NOMINATIVE AND DATIVE-ABLATIVE PLURAL 
 OF DEVS AND MEVS IN PLAVTVS. 
 
 IH Hermathena, vol xiv., pp. 338-359, Professor Charles Exon attempts to 
 prove that the nom. and dat.-abl. pi. of dens were disyllabic in Plautus.^ The 
 arguiiitll upon which he ligrs must stress is briefly this : Flautus uses iambic words 
 shortened by the laur ^breves hrevlantes m the thesis {ue., the accented part of the 
 foot) of iambic and trochaic verse about twice as often as he does in the arsis, 
 whereas: 'tHeloiig «onosyllabk c&rimam$ ia ilali^ue ipth equal .frequency in both 
 parts of liit filot. In this respect the nom. pL of deus agrees with the shortened 
 iambi, and should therefore, he thinks, be considered one of them. 
 
 Uwlbrtunatelf PS^fcamr; Wmm coatctttcd' liiiitdf 'irilh the examination of the 
 
 l8 occurrences of the nom. of €wr, only g of which appear in the thesis. By adding 
 to these the examples from Plautine dialogue of the ace. of cor, of the monosyllabic 
 cases of aes, bos, and crus^ and of the adverb (rm^? Wt fct m total of 8i instances, 
 of which 52, or 64 per cent., occur la the thesis. A tendency to use monosyllables 
 about twice as often in the thesis as in the arsis is not so 'inexplicable' 
 as Professor Exon think» (p. 551). It fs line t© the tmX that long syllables in 
 general are about twice as frequent ill tilftt part of the foot, or, in other words, to 
 the fact that, after all, Plautine verse is rhythmical. It must not be supposed, 
 however, that all teng monosyllables are subject to such a tendency; many 
 unemphatic words, such as et, est, aut, naturally tend to be placed in the arsis. At 
 any rate, the behavior, in this respect, of the group of long monosyllables examined 
 is practically the same as that of shortened iambic words : both occur flbout 
 twice as often in the thesis as in the arsis. This line of argument, therefore, cannot 
 help us to decide to which group the nom. and dat.-abl. pi. of deus belong. 
 
 That they were really monosyllables is shown, I think, by the fact that all 
 iambic words must frequently be read in Plautus with full trimoric value, whereas 
 it is never necessary to read the nom. and dat.-abl. of deus in that way— at least in 
 passages where the reading is clear. Professor Exon tries to minimize the force of 
 this consideration by showing that the undoubtedly disyllabic ace. pi. deos departs 
 nearly as far from the normal behavior of iambic words as do the cases under 
 discussion. Other iambic words, he says, must count as such in about j-j per cent. 
 
 *I have discussed this point in my dissertation, 
 entitled, ' Contraction in the Case-forms of the Latin 
 1(0 and ia Stems, and of deus, is and idem,' Chi- 
 
 cago, 1902, and the following remarks are merely 
 supplementary to what I have said there. 
 2 See references in Lodge, Lexicon Plautinum, s.vv. 
 
 DEVS AND MEVS IN PLAVTVS 
 
 of their occurrences, deos in 7 per cent, and the nom. pi. of deus in about 
 2 per cent. 
 
 In the first place, this statement of the case is not quite exact. We must 
 remember that in the three places where Professor Exon thinks that ' the nom. pi. 
 of deus is necessarily scanned as a disyllabic' the manuscript reading is di, for 
 which dhii is as easy an emendation as diei, the reading which he prefers. But, 
 granting that he is right about these three places, 3 is not quite 2 per cent, of 290,^ 
 the total number of instances of the nom. pi. of deus in Plautus. Again, we ought 
 to include the 25 occurrences of the dat.-abl. — all of them dimoric — since the 
 argument is supposed to hold for these cases too. The true ratio of the trimoric 
 instances to the total, then, is rather less than i per cent. 
 
 Professor Exon recognizes only 4 certain instances of deos with full iambic 
 value ( Cas. 670, Rud. 191, Ba. 387, Cist. 242). To these should certainly be added 
 Poen. 950 : 
 
 De6s deasque ueneror qui banc urbem colunt. 
 
 Professor Exon seriously overstates bis case when he refers to this as a line 
 
 * which it is generally agreed should be altered.' The reading given above, which 
 
 is found both in the Palatine manuscripts and in the Ambrosian palimpsest,'^ 
 
 is accepted without qw^stion by Goetz and Loewe in their editio maior, by 
 
 Goetz and Schoell in the smaller Teubner text, by Leo, by Lindsay, and by 
 
 Lodge in his Lexicon Plmitinum. As far as I can discover, the only scholars 
 
 who have wanted to emend the line are Studemund, Abraham,^ and Exon himself 
 
 Abraham and, I suppose, Studemund object to the iambic deos because this 
 
 is the only place where the word forms the first foot of an iambic line. 
 
 Such a consideration, of course, cannot outweigh the manuscript authority 
 
 which we have quoted above. As a matter of fact, lines which open with an 
 
 iambic word plus an amphibrach are comparatively rare.* Plautus, however, 
 
 introduces seven other lines in the same way. I quote two of them : 
 
 Pers. 352 
 
 Ferdnt eantque mdxumam maldm crucem. 
 Pers. 369 
 
 Malo cauere meliust te. At si non licet. 
 
 The other examples are Aid. 75, Ba. 883, Ep. 42, Ps. 1078, Rud. 324. 
 
 Iambic deos in Rud. 6 is rejected by Professor Exon because it stands in 
 a prologue. No account is taken of the fact that the prologue of the Rudens 
 
 *It is possible that Professor Exon meant to 
 include his conjectural restoration of diet for di in 
 Ps. 767 and for diui in Aul. 50 ; 5 is about 2 per 
 cent, of 291 (Ps. 767 is, of course, included in the 
 290 instances mentioned in the text). It should be 
 clear to every one, however, that such uncertain 
 conjectures cannot be admitted in evidence. 
 
 I have previously {I.e. p. 19) given the number 
 as 287. Now, of course, I must include the three 
 instances in which, for the sake of the argument, 
 the reading diei instead of diui is granted. 
 
 ^On the cogency of such a consensus of the 
 two families of manuscripts see Lindsay, Ancient 
 Editions of Plautus, p. 150. 
 
 'Abraham, Stuiia Plautitta, p. 204, ascribes his 
 emendation to Studemund without reference. I 
 cannot find Studemund's treatment of the line. Did 
 he make the suggestion in conversation or by letter ? 
 
 *Klotz, Altrbmische Metrik^ p. 237, is wrong in 
 thinking, apparently, that the opening of Ter. Ad. 
 392, pudet pigetquf, is more usual than minm decern 
 (Ad. 242), etc. 
 

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 DEVS AND MEVS IN PLAVTVS 
 
 II 
 
 stands on a very different footing from that of most of the prologues. The 
 burden of proof undoubtedly rests upon those who would reject it or any part 
 of it, but Professor Exon dismisses it with five words. Dziatzko, Rh. Mus. xxiv. 
 pp. 570-584, demonstrated the genuineness of parts of it.^ Marx, Greifswalder 
 Programm, 1892/93, argued that the first section (11. 1-31) is from an Attic source 
 and therefore, of course, Plautine.^ The prologue of the Rudens begins as 
 
 follows : ^ 
 
 Qui gentes omnes mariaque et terrds mouet, 
 
 Eius sum ciuis c/uitate caelitum. 
 
 Ita sum lit uidetis splendens stella cdndida, 
 
 Signum quod semper tempore exoritiir suo 
 
 5 Hie atque in caelo. n6men Arctur6st mihi. 
 
 Noctu sum in caelo clarus atque inter deos, 
 
 Inter mortalis dmbulo interdius. 
 
 Et dlia signa de caelo ad terram dccidunt : 
 
 Quist imperator diuom atque hominum luppiter, 
 
 Is n6s per gentis dliud alia dfsparat, 
 
 Qui fdcta hominum, m6res, pietatem et fidem 
 
 Noscdmus, fut quemque ddiuuet opul^ntia. 
 
 Qui fdlsas litis fdlsis testim6niis 
 
 Petunt quique in iure dbiurant pecuniam, 
 
 Eoriim referimus n6mina exscripta dd louem. 
 
 Cotfdie ille scft quis hie quaerdt malum. 
 
 10 
 
 »5 
 
 Lines 6 and 7 were suspected by Marx (/.r.) because they are inconsistent with 
 his understanding of h\c in line 5 as equal to in scaena, Leo included line 8 
 within the brackets. And, indeed, consistency required that he should do so, 
 for the ad terram of line 8 goes no better with his and Marx' understanding 
 of hie than does the inter mortalis of line 7 * But if line 8 is rejected, nos in 
 line 10 is extremely harsh, and with line 10 we have to throw out the entire 
 passage about Jupiter's detective and judicial system (11. 6-31). All this 
 really constitutes a powerful argument in favor of interpreting hie in line 5 
 as in terra — an interpretation which its obvious antithesis to in caelo might 
 have suggested at the outset. There is, then, no reason at all for suspecting 
 line 6.** 
 
 Accordingly there are 6 cases of trimoric deos in Plautus out of a total 
 of 58, or a trifle more than 10 per cent The percentages that are to be 
 compared are I for the conjectural trimoric nom. and dat.-abl. pi., 10 for 
 eUds^ and T] for other iambic words. 
 
 ^Cf. Leo, Plautinische Farschungen^ pp. 191 f. 
 
 'So I gather from Leo, /.f., p. 192. I have not 
 seen Marx' article. 
 
 *The text is that of Goetz and Schoell. 
 
 *I am not sure that this was Leo's reason for 
 condemning the line. In his note he refers to 
 Dziatzko {l.c,\ who objected to the verse because 
 
 cucidunt stands where we should expect descendunt. 
 Professor Knapp calls my attention to the use of 
 accido in the same sense in Lucr. iv. 215 and 
 Caes. B.G. iii. 14. 
 
 *This line of argument was suggested by my 
 colleague. Professor Charles Knapp. 
 
 It is still quite true that the behavior of deos is very different from 
 that of other iambic words. Of that curious fact, however, Professor Exon 
 has suggested a very interesting explanation (pp. 355 ff.). The only point 
 with which we are now concerned is that the marked difference between the 
 behavior of the nom. and dat.-abl. pi. of deus^ on the one hand, and of the 
 ace. pi. on the other, has so far been explained in only one way : viz., by 
 the hypothesis that the former were monosyllables. In the absence of con- 
 flicting evidence that hypothesis will have to stand, and editors will continue 
 to emend to ditii rather than to dei or diei where either word is metrically 
 possible. 
 
 We have noticed incidentally that Professor Exon assumes as the disyllabic 
 nom. and dat.-abl. pi. of deus a form with t in the penult. This sound, 
 he thinks (p. 341), had by the time of Plautus developed from e in the nom. 
 and dat.-abl. pi. of all eo- stems : meus^ for example, made in the nom. pi. 
 miei (i.e. mie)y and in the dat.-abl. pi. mieis (i.e. mies)} We are not now 
 concerned with the pre-Plautine history which Professor Exon assumes for 
 these forms. Their history after Plautus he gives as follows; 'When final -ei 
 became -f (about 150 B.C.), miei and mieis became mil and mils respectively, 
 and at once suffered contraction into *mi and *mis. But the analogy of 
 meuSf etc. restored e, and the case forms of fneus became what they were 
 in classical times.' 
 
 As evidence for his early forms, miei, mieis, etc.. Professor Exon cites 
 abiegnieis, tnieis, iei, and ieis, from early inscriptions, and the manuscript spelling 
 mieis at Plautus, Men. 202. All these epigraphical forms, however, stand in 
 inscriptions of later date than 150 B.C.; they come from a time when, 
 according to the sentences just quoted from Professor Exon himself, the nom. 
 pi. of mens could be only mz or met.^ As I have shown (/.r., pp. 7 f.) 
 that the spelling lEl was sometimes used for the sound i during the last 
 century and a half of the republic, and as there is no reason to suppose 
 that it could be used with the value it, there can be no doubt about its 
 meaning here. The manuscript spelling mieis should, of course, be referred 
 to the period to which the analogous epigraphical forms are known to 
 belong. There is, then, no evidence that Plautus knew any such forms as 
 miei and mieis. 
 
 Professor Exon would probably reply that no objective evidence is needed. 
 There is ample proof in Plautine verse that the monosyllabic nom. and 
 dat.-abl. pi. of meus, which Professor Exon and I both assume for some 
 period before Plautus, had been largely supplanted by some sort of disyllabic 
 forms. These must have been either meei and meeis or miei and mieis. 
 
 ^This part of Professor Exon's article (pp. 341 ff.) 
 is an amplification of an earlier discussion of the 
 «^-sterns in Hermathena, xiii. pp. 149 f. 
 
 'On page 340 Professor Exon says it is by no 
 means sure that ei after i became i at about 150 B.c. 
 
 But everywhere else in the two articles he assumes 
 the change, and its reality is proved by the con- 
 tracted forms flouiy controuersts, lanuaris, Veiiuris, 
 and Vituris in the inscription CI.L, i. 199 of 
 
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 But, it may be argued, meei and meeis could no sooner be restored than 
 they would again suffer contraction. 
 
 My answer is that there is no reason for assuming that the sound law 
 which at some early date led to the contraction of nuei was still operative 
 in the time of Plautus. We know that the sounds e and e (written ei) of 
 Plautus' day actually did, within fifty years after his death, become decidedly 
 different from each other (/ and /" respectively) ; it is altogether likely that 
 their divergence had already gone far enough to prevent contraction, and 
 thus to make possible the restoration of the form meei. 
 
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