I need to find an online reference to a specific citation: “Varro, ap. Non., s. v. p. 538. Mercer”. I know that Mercer refers to one J. Mercier, who made an edition of the text of Nonius Marcellus. I found a fairly good scan of another Nonius-editon on Archive.org: Compendiosa doctrina: Pars I and Pars II. However, I do not see a way to find the wanted page from the Mercer-editoin in this one. Can anyone help?
For your information: I am currently putting the finishing touches to a Wiki-version of Anthony Rich’s Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon from 1849. I’m also drawing up a list of online citations to refer to when adding online links for specific references in the text, like the one given above. I use the article “Abolla” as an example for how to add such online citations. The one for Nonius is the only one I am having trouble with.
I see that the Archive edition gives at the top of its pages (just below the page number) what are presumably page references to a previous edition, notated “M.” I guess that would be the Mercier edition. If so, p.538 is on p.222 in part 2 of the Archive edition or possibly on the page immediately before or after that. P.S. Not 222 (my typo): 202—where I see the abol(l)a entry you apparently meant to refer to, along with the verses recognized by Vahlen.
But couldn’t you just use Onions’ text of Nonius, or a more recent one? Or an edition of Varro? What is the word in question? (s.v. presumably stands for “sub voce.”)
Thank you for your help, the M. indeed marks the Mercier-edition. How could I miss that?
As for the text used. Is the Onions’ text (Archive.org: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) really so much better? I will happily use that edition for references if it is better. What counts is that references given in the book by Anthony Rich like Varro, ap. Non., s. v. p. 538. Mercer can be reduced to citations of specific passages in public domain online editions. Since Onions’ edition is available at Archive.org, that edition is fine.
As for simply using Varro, that’s not possible. The article takes the Nonius-text as a “written authority”, and therefore the online citation needs to provide a link to that authority. By the way, does it really matter to select “Onions”? I can do so without a problem at the present moment, I’m just wondering.
I really don’t know how good Onions’ text is (or rather Lindsay’s post Onions)—I’ve never looked into it. But I know it was groundbreaking and much respected by the likes of Otto Skutsch and Bob Kaster, and it seems that it should suit your purpose.
So your project is almost complete. Congratulations!