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the insular script is more trustworthy, as stated by Laur. LXXVIII 19, where it is placed before the third life referring to a biography of Boethius of Peiper, which presents the appearance of a preface to the glosses (Rand 96): Words of John Scottus. The metrical explanations, which are written down in V quite frequently by the same insular hand, do not agree with Lupus in every respect¹); for instance, these words remain in the margin for I m. v (which pertains to Lupus’s fifth Pindaric anapaestic meter): . . . daric meter | . . . called daric not because | he had invented it | . . . standing the anapaest and spondee. In order to be able to judge whether Heiric (cf. Rand 15—78, 83) utilized the glosses of John, and Remigius²) utilized the commentary of Heiric, it is necessary to examine the entire jumble of scholia, which I doubt is worth the effort.

The commentary of Adalbold, who died as Bishop of Utrecht in 1027, on III m. IX (p. 63, 17 ff.), as far as I know, is handed down in Par. 6770 and 7361, and Vind. 388, and was edited by Gu. Moll.³) One should compare the commentary of William of Cortumelia, which Peiper mentioned on p. XXXXXV, with what M. Cuntze⁴) set forth concerning 11th-century codices, who also presents a commentary sent to the brother G. of the Order of Preachers. Regarding Dionysius de Leuuis (Lewis), see now the edition of the works of Dionysius the Carthusian, vol. XXVI, published in Tournai, 1906. Of the remaining commentaries, those of the greatest importance are those composed by William of Conches (cf. Mueller, Enchiridion IX, II 3, 218) in the 12th century, Nicholas Trevet and Robert Grosseteste in the 13th century, and Thomas the Englishman (not Thomas Aquinas) in the 14th century.

remorse the mind. The rack original: "eculeus" is called a bond, yet a sting original: "aculeus" is the sharpness of any one thing. (60, 4 echinus) cf. Corp. gloss. V 19, 14. (at about the middle of prose III 9) Augustine says: What is evil except the privation of good and a corruption of good?

¹) The explanation of the Phalaecian meter, which is cited in Martianus Capella (p. 17, 15 of the Dick edition) from the Benediktbeuern codex (Mon. 4559) of the 11th century, agrees with Lupus.

²) Aynard of Saint-Apre of Toul, who wrote Par. 15090, is connected in some way (see Manitius in Mueller, Enchiridion IX 2, 509) with Remigius.

³) Kerkhistorisch Archief III (Amsterdam 1862) 163.

⁴) Die Hs. 14836 der k. Hof- u. Staatsbibl. in München. Suppl. z. hist. Abteil. der Zschr. f. Math. u. Phys. XL (1895) 79.