Sul testo dell'Onomasticon di Giulio Polluce

Iulius Pollux lived in the 2nd century ce and was a professor of rhetoric and a lexicographer in Athens under Emperor Commodus. According to its modern editor, Erich Bethe, his Onomasticon has been transmitted in seven manuscripts that preserve only a selection of passages from the original compilation. This paper focuses on two excerpta of the Onomasticon preserved in the manuscripts, Vat. gr. 12 and Vallic. B 99 (22 Martini), examining them in relation to the lexicographic tradition. This approach allows us to highlight the main modifications of the text introduced by later grammarians, probably in the age of the Palaeologan emperors. [Publisher's text]