Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, L, Lacūna

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Lacūna

The name given to a gap found in classical MSS., and due to erasures, accidental obliterations, the tearing of the pages, loss of pages, etc. On the importance of the lacunae as a means of determining the “family” to which a MS. belongs, see Textual Criticism.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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