W. M. Lindsay, An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation, Errors of Emendation, Assimilation of ending

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Assimilation of ending

We may include under the head of grammatical corrections the assimilation of one ending to another. For instance, Mil. 631 albicapillus, written in the archetype albi capillus, has become albus capillus. But this is often a mere clerical error. Thus Mil. 630 “clare oculis video” was wrongly written claris oculis video, evidently because the writer's mind wandered to the termination of the neighbouring word, and not because he thought clare to be a miswriting of claris.

An Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation Based on the Text of Plautus. W. M. Lindsay. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. Macmillan. 1896.

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