Le Lettere Aggiunte da Palamede e Simonide e L’alfabeto Latino. Nota a Plin. HN VII 192 (e Max. Victorin. Gl VI 194, 11–16 + Audax Gl VII 325, 1–6)

Abstract

The lists of letters credited to Palamedes and Simonides by Pliny, Maximus Victorinus, Audax and St. Isidore, in spite of some explicable differences, depend ultimately on the same source and correspond. They include Η and Υ, and not Z. Pliny’s problematic statement after their mention can be best understood by turning it into a negative clause: two solutions are proposed.