Re: VIRGIL: Orthography

[Antonio Cussen]

Title: Re: VIRGIL: Orthography

I�ve been doing some work on the issue of Virgil�s orthography and--other than the work of Ribbeck, B�mer, and Gaebel (the latter two on the -is/-es endings of accusative plurals of i-stem words)--I have found very little literature.  Does any one have any information on works  dealing with Augustan or, more particularly, Virgilian
orthography?  And, even more specifically, should we read ECUS (as Ribbeck,
Sabbadini, and Geymonat do, following the majority consensus of the capital mss) or EQUUS (as Mynors does, following, for the most part, the cursive mss).  Should we read DIVOM or DIVUM?

This thread is no doubt less immediately appealing than traveling through hell, but it is not less obscure.

Antonio Cussen