La grafía <σδ> en la transmisión de los líricos y de los bucólicos

Resumen

The spelling σδ for ζ is a common feature of the textual tradition of Alcaeus and Sappho, though the inscriptional evidence shows that it is a late phenomenon. Outside the Lesbian poets, there is no trace of the spelling in any other manuscript tradition than that of two Doric poets: Alcman and Theocritus. The evidence for the former is scanty, but not for Theocritus. A close examination of the manuscript data indicates that σδ was felt by the copyst to be a typical bucolic characteristic, and the papyri confirm the process of analogical extensions suffered by the medieval manuscripts.