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Excerpt from A Bodleian Ms. Of Copa, Moretum, and Other: Poems of the Appendix Vergiliana Est et Non and Moretum, sparse on Uir bonus, the least interesting of the group, and the easiest. Many of them seem traceable to an early source, as they coincide with glosses in the tenth-century Ms. Vat.1577 recently published by the Catanian editor Curcio. This is in Copa; for the glosses which the same scholar has edited from Vat.1574 (cent, xi or xii) on Moretum only occasionally agree with those in the Digby Ms. and go back to a different origin. Our Ms. may fairly stand as a representative type of medieval commentaries on Latin poems. With much that is right and good it contains not a little that is doubtful or even wrong. But it is not difficult to discriminate the grain from the chaff, as a few samples will be sufficient to show. Copa 2 crispum is glossed i. nimis mobile, uel crispum dicit propter vestes crispatas et collectas circa lotus et renes. The first of these explanations is right and corresponds with Vat.1577 where crispum is glossed tremulum. The second explanation which refers it to the motion of the Copa srobe is far-fetched and improbable. Copa 6 bibulo toro. Digby 100 has bibulo i. ubi satis biberes uel bibulo i. molli quia tykjIUs culcetra que bibit et absorbet kominem, dura uero repellit uel bibulo dicit propter arenam que bibula est ubi torus ille sternebatur. The first of these agrees with Scaliger sinterpretation;the second is impossible; the third is recondite and, in my opinion, points to an early source, though undoubtedly wrong.15 libata is glossed collecta and Achdois filia Acheloy. Vat.1577 has this latter gloss in an expanded form copia filia acheloiy in which Copia is not a mistake for Copay but either a perversion or a more definite version of the story mentioned by the second of Bodes Mythographers (p.131) that the horn which Hercules broke off from the head of the river-god Achelous was consecrated by him to Fortune, and was afterwards filled with autumnal supplies (copiis) by Naiads, the daughters of the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.