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Peter's Fasti of Ovid - P. Ovidi Nasonis Fastorum libri sex. Für die Schule erklärt von Hermann Peter. Dritte verbesserte Auflage. (2 parts.) Leipzig, Teubner, 1889. 3 M. 60.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

S. G. Owen
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Book Review
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The Classical Review , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , May 1890 , pp. 215 - 216
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1890

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1 M. Émile Thomas in a courteous review of my edition of the Tristia (Révue Critique, January 20 1890, p. 45) maintains in opposition to Peter, Sedlmayer and myself that where the inferior MSS. preserve a right reading we must recognize merely a happy accident or felicitous conjecture. I do not believe in the capabilities of copyists for making such felicitous conjectures, or, as I should prefer to call them, restorations: the happy accident view seems to me more reasonable; happy such readings frequently are, though whether they can be said to be due to accident, or, as I rather believe, to a genuine tradition of an inferior group of MSS., is a question of the greatest critical nicety. It is certainly easiest to dispose of them as accidents: but is the easiest course in matters critical always the wisest?