The Clausula in AtiimiauHs Marcellinus. 175 



B 



(14) I. 18. 11 lapsorum ac lasciviam Fad: read atque : cf. I. 16. 26. 



(15) 142. 5 dedendi se consilium. Read sese or transpose. 



(16) 159. 3 afuit quin caperer Ffuit: perhaps this reading should 



be retained. But quin may be pronounced as a dissyl- 

 lable : V. pp. 22"], 22<). 



C 



(17) I. 145. 7 destinatas remearunt sedes Miiller inserted ad before 



destinatas : / should put it before sedes. 



(18) 145. 23 ad res consurrexit novas V consurrexerit {Clark). 

 (19)11.161. 4 misitplebem Transposition must be resorted to {^\&he.m. 



misit conductam) unless one reads conducticiam m. p. 



(20) 196. 8 trucidari securum fecit Haupt conjectured secure fecit, 



Eyssenhardt reads securum efficit. In my opinion 

 Ammianus wrote secure praecepit : cf. II. 173. 21; 

 I. 62. 31; 94. 33; 137. 27. 



(21) 237. 19 portendatur norunt V portetur, Eyssenhardt porteu- 



datur. I should prefer •po?,c\i\\r : c/.poscebatur II. 168.12. 



D 



(22) II. 226. 3 esse [invidiam] sociam Gardthausen brackets invi- 



diam : read individuam with Valesius. 



(23) 271. 25 arduo in munimento conditos Set arduo after con- 



ditos : V reads ardor, which shows that the eye of the 

 scribe ivas caught by ardor, below. Hence the trans- 

 position might easily occur. 

 The only irregular cadence which, on a priori ground, might be 

 expected to occur in Ammianus is that type of A in which the 

 word-division follows the tirst unaccented syllable ((ille properdbat). 

 As Meyer has pointed out, there are some writers who use this 

 clausula, though few of them employ it in any great frequency.^ 

 He accredits Ammianus with sporadic use of it, on the basis of 

 about 15 cases in 800 sentence-endings. But in this matter there 

 is a discrepancy between Meyer's results and mine.^ Among the 

 1461 clausulae in Book XXI I find 10 cases, among 1811 sentence- 



1 See p. 121, and Ges. Abh. p. 260, p. 263 Anm. 1. 



* The difference is probably due to the fact that long and careful 

 study of the Histories has enabled me to ascertain a number of peculi- 

 arities in the pronunciation of Ammianus which he was naturally unable 

 to notice in the hasty examination of a limited material. 



