Hesychiana Tarentina

This note deals with two Tarentine glosses transmitted by Hesychius. In the former (Hsch. α 4656 Latte ἄναυτα), I propose that the problematic form ἠπειρωτικά (printed as such, or wrongly emended, by various scholars) should be corrected into ἢ παραυτίκα, which is palaeographically very plausible and paralleled by other glosses in the Lexicon. In the latter (Hsch. τ 433 Hansen – Cunningham †τελλίην), I propose to read Τελλήν, a personal name attested in Tarentum; the interpretamentum ὁ δεῖνα tells us that it was used to describe an unidentified person, precisely like Titius and Caius in Latin (and Tizio and Caio in Italian).

This note deals with two Tarentine glosses transmitted by Hesychius. In the former (Hsch. α 4656 Latte), I propose that the problematic form (printed as such, or wrongly emended, by various scholars) should be corrected into, which is palaeographically very plausible and paralleled by other glosses in the Lexicon. In the latter (Hsch. τ 433 Hansen -Cunningham), I propose to read, a personal name attested in Tarentum; the interpretamentum tells us that it was used to describe an unidentified person, precisely like Titius and Caius in Latin (and Tizio and Caio in Italian).