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This article identifies three ancient 'signal-word' supplements (i.e. the scribal habit of supplementing an omission in the text by adding in the margin the word either preceding or following the suspected lacuna) and one ancient variant in Seneca's Dialogi X, XI, XII. Accordingly, a new constitutio textus is proposed for brev. vit. 4, 3; cons. ad Polyb. 14, 4 and 17, 4; cons. ad Helv. 2, 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present contribution aims to investigate, from the point of view of text and content, fr. 95 K.‑A. of the comic author Philemon. The fragment, which likely belonged to the prologue of a comedy of name unknown, is spoken by Aere (perhaps an allegory), which provides a self-presentation of traits that are para-philosophical and, specifically, Presocratic. Line 2 of the fragment has been condemned by all editors to date, but through an analysis of the fragment's textual tradition, the line's syntactic structure and the parodic implications, it is proposed here to retain the line. Finally, reflections are offered also on line 3, considering it in accord with the textual choices adopted in relation to the preceding line. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the reflections by J. F. Gronovius at Gell. praef. 19 concerning the scribal habit of supplementing an omission in the text by writing in the margin the word either preceding or following the suspected lacuna (a so-called 'signal word'); the article also identifies other ancient 'signal words' in some loci vexati, for which a new constitutio textus is accordingly advanced: Gell. 1, 22, 16; 2, 13, 5-2, 14, 2; 2, 21, 11; 5, 1, 1; 5, 16, 4-5; 16, 5, 12; 20, 1, 13. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]