Text of Priscian from Hertz ed., Grammatici Latini, vol. II, p. 8 (not a transcription from the St Gall manuscript).
II 8,1 | elementorum nomina quam apud Latinos, siue quod a barbaris inuenta dicuntur, | ||||||
II 8,2 | quod esse ostendit Varro in II de antiquitate literarum, docens | ||||||
4a32 | x | 8,2 | 4a12 | book 1 | 58 | quod: [‘this text is not in the Roman book’] [analysis] | |
4a33 | 8,2 | book 1 | 4111 | varro: | |||
4a33 | y | 8,2 | book 1 | 423 | .II.: | ||
4a34 | 8,2 | book 1 | 4141 4143 | docens: | |||
II 8,3 | lingua Chaldaeorum singularum nomina literarum ad earum formas esse facta | ||||||
4a34 | 8,3 | book 1 | 4112 4111 | singula[rum]: | |||
4a35 | z | 8,3 | 4a13 | book 1 | 211 543 | formas: [‘i.e. to form the letters according to them’] [analysis] | |
II 8,4 | et ex hoc certum fieri, eos esse primos auctores literarum, siue quod | ||||||
4a36 | a | 8,4 | book 1 | 3232 | eos: | ||
4b1 | a | 8,4 | 4b1 | book 1 | 541 | simplicia: [‘i.e. for they will be compounded of the sounds of others letters if they be declined i.e. so that there may be in them the composition of letters or syllables to signify a genitive, etc.’] [analysis] | |
II 8,5 | simplicia haec et stabilia esse debent quasi fundamentum omnis doctrinae | ||||||
4b2 | b | 8,5 | 4b2 | book 1 | 541 | [sta]bilia: [‘i.e. without declension’] [analysis] | |
4b2 | c | 8,5 | book 1 | 212 | quasi: | ||
4b2 | d | 8,5 | 4b3 | book 1 | 542 | fundamentum: [‘for the unstable foundation is not fitting’] [analysis] | |
II 8,6 | immobile, siue quod nec aliter apud Latinos poterant esse, cum a suis | ||||||
4b3 | e | 8,6 | book 1 | 4228 34 | nec (aliter): | ||
4b4 | 8,6 | book 1 | 4141 | cum: | |||
II 8,7 | uocibus uocales nominentur, semiuocales uero in se desinant, mutae a se | ||||||
4b5 | 8,7 | book 1 | 4142 | nominentur: | |||
II 8,8 | incipientes uocali terminentur, quas si flectas, significatio quoque nominum | ||||||
4b7 | f | 8,8 | book 1 | 3221 | quas: | ||
4b7 | g | 8,8 | 4b4 | book 1 | 543 541 | signi[ficatio]: [‘i.e. the meaning that is in them before, i.e. the meaning of denomination. This, indeed, is the meaning of the denomination of vowels, their production by themselves: it would not be thus, then, if they were declined, etc.’] [analysis] | |
II 8,9 | una euanescit. | ||||||
4b8 | h | 8,9 | book 1 | 34 541 | una: [‘i.e. with declension’] [analysis] | ||
4b8 | i | 8,9 | 4b6 | book 1 | 211 541 | evanescit: [‘i.e. it vanishes and perishes, i.e. it puts itself into other sounds.’] [analysis] | |
II 8,10 | uocales igitur, ut dictum est, per se prolatae nomen suum ostendunt, | ||||||
4b9 | k | 8,10 | 4b7 | book 1 | 543 | prolatae: [‘manifesting their name’] [analysis] | |
4b10 | 8,10 | book 1 | 4143 | ostendunt: | |||
II 8,11 | semiuocales uero ab e incipientes et in se terminantes, absque x, quae ab | ||||||
4b11 | 8,11 | book 1 | 4121 | x: | |||
4b11 | l | 8,11 | book 1 | 423 | (quae) sola: | ||
II 8,12 | i incipit per anastrophen Graeci nominis ξῖ, quia necesse fuit, cum sit | ||||||
4b12 | 8,12 | book 1 | 4142 | incipit: | |||
4b12 | m | 8,12 | 4b8 | book 1 | 211 | (per) anostrophen: [‘i.e. by anastrophe’] [analysis] | |
4b12 | n | 8,12 | book 1 | 4222 | greci (nominis): | ||
4b13 | o | 8,12 | book 1 | 221 | ξι: | ||
II 8,13 | semiuocalis, a uocali incipere et in se terminare, quae nouissime a Latinis | ||||||
4b14 | p | 8,13 | book 1 | 3223 | quae: | ||
4b15 | q | 8,13 | book 1 | 541 | [no]vissime: | ||
II 8,14 | assumpta post omnes ponitur literas, quibus Latinae dictiones egent (quod | ||||||
4b15 | r | 8,14 | 4b9 | book 1 | 541 | omnes: [‘i.e. the order of invention is (still) on it’] [analysis] | |
4b16 | 8,14 | book 1 | 4121 | literas: | |||
4b16 | s | 8,14 | 4b10 | book 1 | 543 | egent: [‘they indeed need it’] [analysis] | |
II 8,15 | autem ab i incipit eius nomen, ostendit etiam Seruius in commento | ||||||
4b17 | t | 8,15 | book 1 | 3233 | (huius) nomen: | ||
4b17 | 8,15 | book 1 | 4123 | ostendit: | |||
4b17 | u | 8,15 | book 1 | 566[?] | servi[us]: | ||
4b18 | w | 8,15 | 4b11 | book 1 | 211 | commento: [‘i.e. in the treatise’] [analysis] | |
II 8,16 | quod scribit in Donatum his uerbis: semiuocales sunt septem, | ||||||
4b18 | x | 8,16 | book 1 | 36 | in (donatum): | ||
4b19 | y | 8,16 | 4b12 | book 1 | 421 | semivocales: [‘i.e. these are the words (of Servius)’] [analysis] | |
II 8,17 | quae ita proferuntur, ut inchoent ab e litera et desinant in | ||||||
II 8,18 | naturalem sonum, ut ef, el, em, en, er, es, ix. sed ix ab i | ||||||
II 8,19 | inchoat. id etiam Eutropius confirmat dicens: una duplex ix, quae | ||||||
4b22 | z | 8,19 | book 1 | 566[?] | eutropi[us]: | ||
II 8,20 | ideo ab i incipit, quia apud Graecos in eandem desinit), mutae | ||||||
4b24 | aa | 8,20 | book 1 | 3232 | eam: | ||
II 8,21 | autem a se incipientes et in e uocalem desinentes, exceptis q et k, | ||||||
4b25 | 8,21 | book 1 | 4141 | autem: | |||
4b26 | bb | 8,21 | book 1 | 423 | exceptis: | ||
4b26 | cc | 8,21 | book 1 | 3222 | quarum: | ||
II 8,22 | quarum altera in u, altera in a finitur, sua conficiunt nomina. h enim | ||||||
4b27 | 8,22 | book 1 | 4111 | sua: | |||
4b27 | dd | 8,22 | book 1 | 223 | confici[unt]: | ||
4b28 | ee | 8,22 | 54 | book 1 | 543 | [confici]unt: | |
4b28 | ff | 8,22 | 4b13 | book 1 | 541 | autem: [‘i.e. therefore I do not place it with k and q’] [analysis] | |
II 8,23 | aspirationis magis est nota. | ||||||