Aus den Untersuchungen zum Wiener Palimpsest des Grammatikers Herodian III: Hdn. Vind. fr. Ia (fol. 6r), Zeilen 13–45 + fr. Ib (fol. 6v), Zeilen 1–35: De prosodia catholica 5, Nomina auf -οος

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 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 are still ongoing, those parts of the palimpsest, where undeciphered gaps have been reduced the most, are being published in a preliminary version (text, translation, commentary). The article presents a section of Book 5 of the De prosodia catholica on the accentuation of nominal forms (nouns and adjectives) ending in -οος that have more than two syllables. Herodian focuses here mainly on the simplicia. This section has been preserved in fr. I of the Vienna palimpsest, in the scriptura inferior of fol. 6r (Hdn. Vind. fr. Ia), lines 13–45, and fol. 6v (Hdn. Vind. fr. Ib), lines 1–35. 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.