The Fragments and Periochae of Livy (on D. Levene, Livy. The Fragments and Periochae)

hese volumes, the first two in a projected series of four, are an outstanding contribution to the study of Livy.In the first D. S. Levene (henceforth L.) has re-edited the fragments of Livy and, for the first time, collected citations of Livy made before the early Middle Ages and testimonia to his life and writing; he has also provided an introduction, text, translation, and commentary on not only the fragments but also the citations and testimonia.The second volume, titanic in scale, deals with Periochae 1-45; it contains a long introduction, the text, a critical apparatus to the text, a translation into English, and a massive commentary.L. does not fully disclose his plans for commenting on the later Periochae in the remaining volumes but does state (vol.II, p. xi) that the so-called Oxyrhynchus Epitome will be discussed in Volume III, and the Liber prodigiorum of Julius Obsequens in Volume IV.Both printed and online versions of the two volumes have been well produced by Oxford University Press and are extremely well indexed. 1 1 In case correction of misprints becomes easier in our digital age, I list the typographical errors that I have noticed.Vol.I: read (p.48, F 65) ornatu.nam for ornatunam; (p.152) 'also have had' for 'have also have had'; (p.224) 'BC.' for 'BC'; (p.240, three lines from end of second paragraph) 'Ganymedes' for 'Ganymede'; (p.326) 'Develin' for 'Develin.'.In the apparatus to C 70 the juxtaposition of XXXVIII with XXXUII and XXXUI is odd, since L. does not normally use 'u' for 'v'.Vol.II: read (p. 30, apparatus) 'Sophus Levene' (thus the text) for 'Stofus Levene'; (p.34, apparatus on 21.1) 'Lat.' for 'Lat'; (p.95, line 7) 'simply' for 'a simply'; (p.117, note on 3.5) 'a [or A] is omitted' for 'A is omitted'; (p.146) 'gods' intervention with'[uel sim.] for 'gods' intervention'; (p.148) 'the Veliterni' for 'the Velitrae'; (p.176) 'Rep.' for 'Rep.' (at the second appearance of the abbreviation); (p.241, second paragraph) 'offering the' for 'the offering the'; (p.265, last line of penultimate paragraph) 'than' for 'that'; (p.269 n. 99) a Greek semi-colon for a Greek question mark; (p.484, on 23.7) 'in any part' for 'in in any part'; (p.486) a full stop at the end of the first paragraph; (p.527) '28.9.10' for '22.9.10'.T X S. P. Oakley complete than the version which we have today and of which V of Porphyrio (= Vat.lat.3314, s. ix) is the archetype; another was the tradition deriving from V. That the citation in Ps.-Acro here derives ultimately from Porphyrio is clear; whether it derives from the fuller Porphyrio or the abbreviated version represented by V is less clear.I have found the

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