10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARABLEPSY»
Discover the use of
parablepsy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parablepsy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus
The similarity of letter shapes can lead the scribe to skip over the intervening text
or otherwise err in the copying (see haplography, parablepsy). Homoeoteleuton.
An instance in which nearby words or parts of words have identical endings.
William Allen Johnson, 2004
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition.
3
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I: A Commentary
Manes / Odrysius dux rite movet; cf. also 3.444f., 5.193 and 6.93. The change
from rite to retro may have been caused by parablepsy from -remo immediately
above. neque ... Orci: since this is clearly the reason (enim) for Alcimede to
perform ...
... the corruption would be easily explainable by 'parablepsy', as would the
imperatives in the new position, being uttered as a quid pro quo; aur' gives
delayed effect to the imperatives aiieijSou and Keys: 'I shall answer your question
: you, ...
and Halm's suggestion of parablepsy seems greatly preferable. The man's full
name was M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus; he was consul in 31 B.C., an office that
had been intended for Antony, and father of the two men mentioned at 1 12.1 ...
A. J. Woodman, Paterculus, 2004
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Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: ...
The omission of the second sigma may signal an instance of parablepsy. That
Trooomlt03 Os was originally intended is strengthened by the frequency with
which the ritual specialist has the second-person accusative Os instead of the
dative ...
7
A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X : Volume IV: Book X: Volume IV:
J This last passage suggests that pro certo is a possible conjecture in our
passage, but the corruption would be harder to explain (contrast the parablepsy
postulated by Watt's conjecture). Crevier's certum gives unpointed sense (hence
...
8
The Oresteia of Aeschylus
When the same group of letters occurs twice at a short interval, the scribe tends to
pass directly from one to the other and to omit what lies between (parablepsy): Ag
. I 13 fiuv 80(pi Kori Xe)pl TrpétK-ropi, 993—4 E'l'ronoev 6rq><voo Sucrruxiotg ...
George Thomson, Walter G. Headlam, 2013
9
The Oresteia of Aeschlyus
When the same group of letters occurs twice at a short interval, the scribe tends to
pass directly from one to the other and to omit what lies between (
parablepsy) :
Ag. 113 £uv 8o<pl Kal xe)pl itpdicropi, 993-4 fbraicTev &cp(vco 8uoruxlas Trpos
...
10
Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 2
But it seems safer to retain it, assuming 'parablepsy' from -tinuo to -titudo (sec,
however, below). 13 meo nomine recitando Probably as a signatory to the decree
. On the construction cf. K.-S. 1, pp. 752 f. in was added before nomine by Zumpt,
...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, D. R. Shackleton-Bailey, 2004
