MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
AMERICAN ACA D E M Y. 
An unpublished Grammatical Fragment. — Petronius Arbiter De Antiquis Dictionibus. 
Bx CHARLES BECK. ` 
Communicated September 13th, 1859. 
Waite engaged in Europe in a search after manuscripts of the Satyricon of Petronius - 
Arbiter, I found, in November, 1858, in the Biblioteca Riccardiana at Florence, a 
quarto volume of about two hundred pages containing, among other works, as Prisci- 
anus de Ponderibus, Fulgentius, Homeri Vita, Francisci Petrarchi "Testamentum, also 
a grammatical fragment entitled Ex Petronio Arbitro. On the inside of the cover is. 
this statement: * Membrane. fragmentum. inferius appositum ex veteri attrito tegu- 
mento huc translatum. est die 19 Juli, 1716. 2: EE a Sie? a modern. copy of im | E 
unm older AS which, from. ge: or ne, was in danger of | ecoming ; 
uidit When, e Ev dtd te r, in n the passat of my object, I wh, through 
the kind aid of the Laien Minister, Mr. Stockton, access to the Vatican Library, 
and, through the kindness of the Prince Buoncompagni, the numbers of two manu- 
scripts bearing the name of Petronius, I found that one of them contained the same > E 
fragment which I had poned i in posue. Of this, a a made a | careful n While eu 
» "Those SDE reacio Soot dug itid: iet SORE Reg authors. S alae E 
that, in an earlier manuscript, this fragment followed the Satyricon of Petronius, and being without the name 
of an author, or at least without the second name Arbiter, an ignorant « or careless copyist ascribed the frag- E E 
ment to the author of the preceding Satyricon. 
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