Priscian

Hi all!


Does anyone know of an edition of the fifth-century grammarian Priscian’s works more recent than the two books in Keil’s Grammatici Latini?

And more importantly, since I already know of one source for the latin, does anyone know of a translation of his much lauded work into English or German?

I have been looking all over the internet, but nothing has come up.

Gratias vobis multas ago!

i certainly dont know,

but i would like to know whether keil’s work is avaible online. :smiley:

I use a library copy but have a look here for I think just one volume from Keil online, Tertie: http://books.google.com/books?id=4HoKAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=keil+grammatici#PPP1,M1

There are only four libraries in Denmark that have the Grammatici Latini, and it is not even possible to take it home, only to have it brought to the reading room. And that’s not quite fair when I want to fall asleep with a giant, German book, in Latin, on my face. :open_mouth:

Thank you for the link, adriane, I’ll certainly look into it, even though my interests lie with Priscian and his syntax. Why didn’t I think of google myself?

Salve Timeodaneos
In my library, the librarian was open to my digitally photographing the out-of-copyright Keil volumes last year (which I then compiled into PDFs several GB in size to work on at home). Actually, it’s a blanket permission to photograph – as long as I respect copyright, when it applies. I wonder would your librarian be sympathetic, if you promised to let the library have a digital copy and were willing to do the work, and assured the library it was for your own use only. It took me an afternoon using a small 7 Mega pixel camera at high JPG quality, a Bembo trekker tripod (to come in with the camera above the books on a table in one of the library stacks) and a remote-release trigger, photographing simultaneously both facing pages in one frame to speed things up, and transferring to the computer from 2GB memory cards, and the librarian didn’t require me to duplicate anything for them. I find the Canon IXUS cameras real workhorses for this, and I’ve got over two hundred thousand images, I think, from one that is still going. I would do maybe 2000 shots (that is, 4000 pages) a day, 20 a minute, by this method, with frequent rests to stop me going crazy (if that isn’t a contradiction).

It turns out only volume V of Keil is digitised at Google books, I think.

The only force stronger than Man’s greed is his laziness.
I could never undertake the task of copying even one volume - then I’d rather spend 1.100 € buying the entire set.

I don’t think they would be that liberal anyway, since it’s the royal library, which doesn’t even let you find your books on the shelves.


On another note, I was searching for Priscian for a school assignment, but as it turns out, my teachers think I am too ambitious, I had plans to sketch out the antique language theory, use Plato’s Cratylus and Varro’s De Lingua Latina to examplify theories of morphology and etymology, and Apollonios Dyskolos and Priscian the syntax. Since I only have 15-20 pages and Plato is a mouthful, the advice was to cut it in half and wait till university with the grand plans.

gratias tibi adriane ago. from your post i was able to finde another. books 13 to 18 by priscian.

v III http://books.google.com/books?id=_HsKAAAAIAAJ&dq=ex+recensione+henrici+keilii&hl=pt-BR