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Glosses on Priscian (St. Gall).

que, ex quibus nascuntur, bisillaba sint uel eo plus⁴

P. 45a

per genetiuos¹ et uel unam uel duas assu­mentia² syllabas faciunt³ supra dictos gradus⁴…. Super­latiuus compara­tiuum est⁵ quando superat una syllaba…. Est quando par est⁶, ut in ‘‑limus’ terminans…est quando una uincitur⁷ syllaba, ut quando in ‘‑fimus’…desinit…

De Dimminutiuo …comparatiua quoque non solum augent⁸, sed etiam est quando minuunt uim primiti­uorum, sed non absolute⁹. Ad aliquid enim omnimodo¹⁰ fit compa­ratio… …non posunt tamen esse absoluta¹¹, cum a compa­ratiuis sint deriuata…ut ‘maius­culus¹²,’ ‘minus­culus¹³’…

Thais quam ego sum¹⁴ maiuscula est,

id est, ‘paruo maior¹⁵ quam ego.’ Alia autem dimi­nutiua…ex sese¹⁶ habent diminu­tionem…

P. 45b

Solent autem dimminutiua uel necessariae significationis causa proferri¹, ut Sallus­tius in Eugur­thino: ‘postquam reguli² in unum conuenere, id est ‘parui reges,’ uel urbani­tatis³, ut Iuuenalis..

Vnde fit, ut malim frater­culus⁴ esse gigantum,

4: numero sillabarum .i. nó it lia desillabchi

P. 45a

1: forgenitne són   2: positi forgenitne   3: positi 4: compariti ⁊ superlati   5: incomparit   6: .i. superlait do comparit^[1]   7: superlait   8: sech positi na­conparite^[2] oambiat   9: húare bís ɔṅdelgg indib   10: ócach mud ómbí ɔdelg   11: cen­chondelg nindib .i. nibba cen­a­dærscugud dineuch son · ·   12: máanu   13: laigeniu   14: hi luc posit atá ego híc   15: inbec^[3] máo .i. isbec as máo oldáusa .i. is bec in­derscugud   16: cen­a­ɔdelgg frinna aill

P. 45b

1: .i. robbí uárrecar less dígbail indḟolaid ɔidécen suin fria slond sidi huare nád robatar suin doṡlund in­dúildetad in­choisget   2: indrígain   3: hua accuiss sulbai­richthe   4: bráithrán^[4]

4. i.e. or they are more than disyllabism.

P. 45a

1. that is, over genitives.   2. positives over genitives.   3. positives.   4. compar­atives and super­latives.   6. i.e. the super­lative to the compar­ative.   8. beyond the positives of the compar­atives from which they are.   9. since compar­ison is (inherent) in them.   10. in every mode in which is compar­ison.   11. without compar­ison in them, i.e. it will not be without its surpass­ing some (other).   14. in place of a positive ego is here.   15. a little greater i.e. she is a little greater than I, i.e. the distinc­tion is small.   16. without their being compared to any other thing.

P. 45b

1. i.e. there may be a time when it is necessary^[5] to diminish the substance so that there is need of words to signify it, because there were not words (enough) to signify the proper nature which they express.   3. because of polite­ness.

1. rectius chomparit
2. rectius nacomparite
3. leg. inbiuc, or is becmáo a compound?
4. MS. bráithráin, with punctum delens over the second i
5. for recar for ronecar cf. Celt. Zeitschr. iv. 67. Here recar less has a subject in the nomi­native; but contrast the older construc­tion in Wb. 12^c3, Ml. 2^a6, 22^c14

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