Aus den Untersuchungen zum Wiener Palimpsest des Grammatikers Herodian II: Hdn. Vind. fr. Ia (fol. 6r), Zeilen 1–13, De prosodia catholica, Buch 5, Nomina auf -ιος*

Abstract

For several years an international team of five classical scholars have been working on the decipherment of the Vienna Herodian palimpsest, i.e. fragments of the important but lost work De prosodia catholica of the grammarian Aelius Herodianus (2nd cent. AD) that Herbert Hunger discovered sixty years ago in a palimpsest of the Austrian National Library in Vienna (see GLO 41–42, 2023, 233–287). The classicists are preparing a critical edition of these fragments, the so-called Herodianus Vindobonensis, with a comprehensive commentary. In cooperation with leading specialists in the field of the digital recovery of palimpsests various state-of-the-art methods of imaging and image processing have been applied to render the erased early-tenth-century Greek script visible. While the digital recovery and the decipherment of the text are still ongoing, some parts of the palimpsest, where the undeciphered gaps have been reduced very substantially, are being published in a preliminary version (text, translation, commentary). The current article presents the beginning of fr. Ia of the Hdn. Vind. The rule in question belongs to Book 5 of the De prosodia catholica and concerns the accentuation of the nominative singular of nominal forms ending in -ιος. The preliminary edition of the new text – presented here for the first time – is accompanied by a German translation and a detailed commentary. An English translation is included in an appendix.