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this point as we find in Isidore, or. X 247: segnis, id est sine 

 igne, ingenio carens. Se autem sine significat, ut sedulus 

 sine dolo: securus, qnasi sine cnra, etc. In two other pas- 

 sages Isidore omits this explanation: orig. X 244, sedulus fami- 

 liare verbumTerentii: hoc est sine dolo; orig. X 262, sepultus, 

 sine pulsu, id est sine motu. Accordingly, when Servius 

 explains 'securus', A. 2, 374, as ^ sine cii)'a\ sedulns, A. 2, 374, 

 as 'si«e dolo\ segnis, A. 1, 428; 2, 374, as 'sine igne', and 

 'sepultus', A. 3, 41; 6, 424, 'quasi sine pulsu', it seems safer 

 to suppose that he really means 'se dolo', 'se igne', etc., than 

 to infer that he allows the 'n' of 'sine' to disappear. 



VIII. The additional notes of Daniel's Servius are some- 

 times supplementary to those of the vulgate, sometimes repe- 

 titions of them, sometimes inconsistent with them. Examples 

 of inconsistency in the matter of etymology may be seen 

 under the following words*: ara, A. 2, 515; 4, 219; bruma, A. 



2, 472; G. 1, ;?ii; feretrum, A. 11, 64; insertas, A. 3, 152; 

 jubar, A. 4, 130; latrones, A. 12, 7; palaestra, A. 6, 642; <S, 138; 

 G. 2, 351; Praeneste, A. 7, 682; vitula, A. 1, 533; B. 3, 30. 



One of the chief arguments relied on by Thomas (p. 49) 

 and Thilo (Praef. XIII) as showing that these 'additional' 

 notes did not form part of the original commentary of Servius 

 is the following: the additional notes quote a variety of opin- 

 ions upon disputed points without deciding upon any one in 

 particular, while the vulgate usually does so only to adopt 

 one in preference to the others. As far as etymological notes 

 are concerned this statement seems to require some modifica- 

 tion. Omitting the explanations of proper names, we have 

 in the vulgate several cases where one etymology out of two 

 or more offered or quoted is distinctly preferred*: cortina, A. 

 6, 347; 3, 92; delubrum, A. 2, 225; 4, 56; fur, G. 3, 407; 

 harena, A. 1, 178; indigetes, A. 12, 79; G. 1, 498; latrones, A. 

 12, 7; lucerna, A. 1, 726; manes, A. 3,63; tus, G. 1,57; vesti- 

 bulum, A. 2, 469; 6, 273 and perhaps circenses, A. 8, 636; G. 



3, 18. In an equal number of cases, however, no such pre- 

 ference is manifested: amoenus, A. 6, 638; ancile, A. 8, 664; 

 annus, A. 1, 269; castra, A. 3, 519; clarigatio, A. 10, 14; cuna- 



* These etymologies are quoted in the second part of this paper 



