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Numeri versuum in singulis paginis exaratorum fluctuant inter triginta et duodetriginta; paginae ultimorum foliorum continentur tricenis versibus. Tricesimus autem versus ultimae paginae (fol 297b) hic est (V 84, 1): καὶ τῆς Ἀσίας τῆς παραϑαλαττίου κατέσχεν *) Ergo ut argumentum primi libri in initio codicis D desideratur, ita in eiusdem fine deest formula paene sollemnis, qua Diodorus singulos libros concludebat. Dixerit fortasse quispiam ne ea quidem, quae in aliis codicibus post illud κατέσχεν sequuntur, huic Diodori consuetudini satis esse consentanea: post κατέσχεν aliquid desiderari nemo negabit. Neque dubitari potest, quin librarius codicis D non in hoc vocabulo finem scribendi fecerit. Qui cum in fine ceterorum librorum subscriptionem ornatis litteris addere et puncta quaedam lineolasque pingere consueverit, eum toto opere perfecto haec ornamenta omisisse et punctum solum supra lineam posuisse nullo pacto credi potest. Denique digna memoratu sunt, quae Schneider (l. c. p. 5) *) Cave ne ex hoc ν ἐφελκυστικὸν concludas finem orationis significatum esse; nam hoc ν in D persaepe invenitur ante vocabula artissime coniuncta, quorum prima littera est consonans. — Liceat hic simul quaedam alia scripturae D propria addere: 1. Elisiones vocalium (in vocibus ut δέ, τέ, γέ, ἀλλά) in D multo sunt crebriores quam in ceteris libris. — 2. Compendiose scripta inveniuntur haec: ἄνος (= ἄνθρωπος), οὐνος (= οὐρανός), πὴρ (= πατήρ), σρία (= σωτηρία), praeterea haud raro syllabae in fine vocabulorum positae atque particulae, unde varii errores orti sunt veluti πραχϑέντα pro παραταχϑέντα, πράξεις pro παρατάξεις, πάλιν pro παράλιον. — 3. In margine foliorum manu saeculi XI descriptorum brevia argumenta Graecis litteris uncialibus exarata sunt, desunt in recentioribus foliis.

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The number of lines per page fluctuates between thirty and twenty-eight; the pages of the final leaves contain thirty lines each. The thirtieth line of the last page (fol. 297b) reads (V 84, 1): 'and he seized [control of] the coastal region of Asia' [καὶ τῆς Ἀσίας τῆς παραϑαλαττίου κατέσχεν]* Thus, just as the summary of the first book is missing from the beginning of codex D, so too at its end the nearly standard formula with which Diodorus customarily concluded each book is absent. One might perhaps argue that even what follows the word κατέσχεν in the other manuscripts does not sufficiently conform to Diodorus' usual practice; no one will deny that something is missing after κατέσχεν. Nor can there be any doubt that the scribe of codex D did not intend to stop writing at this word. Since he was accustomed to adding a subscriptio in ornamental letters at the end of the other books, and to drawing certain dots and lines, it is impossible to believe that, having completed the entire work, he would have omitted these ornaments and placed only a single dot above the line. Finally, worthy of note is what Schneider (loc. cit. p. 5) observed: * Take care not to conclude from this movable nu [ν ἐφελκυστικόν] that the end of a sentence is signaled; for this nu is found very frequently in D before words that are intimately connected and whose first letter is a consonant. — Let me also add here some other peculiarities of the script in D: 1. Elisions of vowels (in words such as δέ, τέ, γέ, ἀλλά) are far more frequent in D than in the other manuscripts. — 2. The following abbreviations are found: ἄνος (= ἄνθρωπος, 'man'), οὐνος (= οὐρανός, 'heaven'), πὴρ (= πατήρ, 'father'), σρία (= σωτηρία, 'salvation'), as well as fairly frequent abbreviations of final syllables and particles, from which various errors have arisen, such as πραχϑέντα for παραταχϑέντα, πράξεις for παρατάξεις, and πάλιν for παράλιον. — 3. In the margins of the leaves written by the eleventh-century hand, brief summaries in Greek uncial letters are inscribed; these are absent from the more recent leaves.

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