06-11-2007, 01:16 AM
The vowel business, much of which concerns the apices on the Monumentum Ancyranum, (and a second related one by the same author, transcription in prep) is called by a note to Ammian Book 15, also in prep; not quite as disparate then as it looks. Rolfe was also Loeb's translator of the Res Gestae on my site, which I transcribed a coupla years back with every one of its horrid little nonsensical apices. I mention all this in part because I haven't yet linked the article to the Res Gestae passages; in part for any Augustophiles out there; and finally, to provide myself with an "excuse", lest I be thought to entertain any fondness for these obscure literary minutiae....
