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  • 17 - Some Reflections on the Presence of Accents in the Montserrat Cicero, In Catilinam 2

  • from Part III - Palaeographic Insights
  • Edited by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
  • Book:
    Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 296-309

  • Summary

    This contribution explores the presence of accents in the text of the Catilinarians preserved in the fourth-century CE Codex Miscellaneus of Montserrat. Starting from a general consideration of the sign in the Latin grammatical tradition, where it is closely linked to that of the apex, it moves to the particular analysis of each of the instances of the sign in the text, both from a material point of view and a philological, grammatical perspective. Whereas in fact some of them are proved to be not ink, but papyrus debris, and some others may be doubted as accents by reason of their shape, the remaining cases where an intention on the part of the scribe to write an acutus sign is clear point to a practical, non-erudite purpose for their presence. In accordance with the miscellaneous nature of the codex and its declared educational purposes, the presence of the signs seems to be connected with the earlier stages in Latin learning within the context of the hellenophone provinces of the East after Diocletian’s reforms.