Epistolae

Garbled or doubtful type in Migne's plate, logged here. Governed by translation-style.md Pattern 7: the English renders what the plate PRINTS, never the conjectured reading; type that is not a word at all is carried into the English untranslated, in italics. Four entries below previously claimed to have applied their conjecture to the running text (the withdrawn 10103 precedent); the English has been restored to the printed readings and the entries now record the conjectures instead.

Epistle I (chunk 0000)

• col. 1137D — quorum fere omnes sani per diversas curas transierunt. sani is grammatically possible as a predicative nominative and is so rendered ("who have passed almost all of them sound through various trials"). But the Senecan model behind this passage makes anni ("whose years have almost all passed through various cares") the likelier original; a human read-through should decide whether to note the variant in the apparatus.

• col. 1138C — nec autem summam rupit, sed pectus, fateor, et viscera ipsa divisit. The noun governed by summam has dropped out; the source phrase (Seneca, Ad Polybium) reads summam cutem, "the outermost skin," which is near-certainly what the plate has lost. As printed, summam is still construable as a substantive ("the sum, the whole"), so it is rendered literally — "it did not break the sum" — and the conjecture summam [cutem] is recorded here. (Earlier the English read "it did not break the surface," i.e. the conjecture applied silently.)

• col. 1138C — quemadmodum tirones leviter sauciati, tamen vociferantur, ut veterani quamvis confossi patienter ... curari se patiuntur. Printed ut where the antithesis requires at ("whereas"); as printed the sentence has no main clause, since both limbs become subordinate comparatives. ut is a Latin word and construable with the indicative patiuntur, so it is rendered as printed — "but just as raw recruits … cry out, as veterans … suffer themselves to be treated patiently" — and the resulting suspended syntax is Migne's, not ours. Evidence for at: the Senecan source antithesis (tirones … at veteres) and the sense, which needs the veterans opposed to the recruits, not likened to them. (Earlier the English read "but whereas raw recruits … veterans … suffer," i.e. at silently substituted.)

• col. 1138D — the 1 Thess. 4:14 quotation (Si enim credimus quod Jesus mortuus est et resurrexit…) is set in italics but carries no [n: …] note; likewise the unmarked allusions to Matt. 11:28, 3 Kings 19:4, Eccli. 38:17, and 2 Kings 12:20–23 in Epistle II. Migne notes only the head-dates in this work (noteCount: 1 per chunk), so scripture here will not reach the index by the [n:] route. Flagged for the indexer, not repaired in the text.

Epistle II (chunk 0001)

• col. 1141A — Posquam for Postquam (dropped t), in the first of the five parallel postquam clauses; the remaining four are spelled correctly. Posquam is not a Latin word, so per Pattern 7's non-word ruling it is carried through untranslated in italics — "For Posquam he had made our littleness a disciple of Bertulf the chancellor; after he had rewarded me…" The intended reading is postquam, certain from the four parallel clauses that follow. (Earlier the English read "For after he had made…")

Epistle III (chunk 0002)

• head, col. 1141C — Ad Conradum imperatorem II. Migne's rubric numbers the addressee Conrad II, but the letter congratulates the successor of Lothar III on a recens electio, which is Conrad III, elected king of the Romans in March 1138 (Conrad II died 1039, a century earlier). The rubric is Migne's, not the letter's; the head is translated as printed and the misnumbering left standing. A human read-through should decide whether this warrants a citation-corrections.json entry.

• col. 1142B–C — ut Romana ecclesia maxime, per quam accepistis Romani imperii sedem, sentiant se et sentientes gaudeant. The singular subject Romana ecclesia governs plural verbs (sentiant … gaudeant); either the subject has been corrupted from a plural (e.g. Romani) or a second subject has dropped out. Rendered literally, keeping the printed subject and letting the plural verbs stand as "may perceive … may rejoice."

• col. 1142C — Nunquam tantum vobis opos alicujus placeant. opos is not Latin, so there is nothing to render; carried through untranslated in italics — "Let no man's opos ever so please you." The intended reading is opes ("wealth, resources"): the plural verb placeant demands a plural subject, and the following clause opposes wealth to justice. (Earlier the English read "Let no man's wealth ever so please you.")

• col. 1142D — omnipontentis, not a Latin word; carried through untranslated in italics — "the grace of omnipontentis God." The intended reading is omnipotentis, certain: the same phrase is spelled correctly elsewhere in this letter. (Earlier the English read "of almighty God.")

• cols. 1143A → 1144A — the column sequence skips from 1143A straight to 1144A; there are no 1143B–D anchors in the TEI, and the sentence runs across the jump without a break in sense. Reproduced as printed. (Migne's cols. 1143B–D carry an interposed editorial block, not text of the letter.)

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Blind Opus read of the Latin/English pair for sense-reversing defects (one word or one letter asserting the opposite of what the context requires). 2 site(s). Migne's defects are recorded here and rendered literally in the English; our own errors were fixed in place. Full context: data/sweeps/corpus-polarity/REPORT.md.

1141D — sense-reversing-letter (migne, low confidence)

Printed: Per vos Romani imperii dignitas reparatur, sublimatur, et in antiquum consulum Pompeii, Scipionis, Julii, Octaviani atque [1142A] Trajani dominationis vix attollitur statum.

Conjecture: vix is intrusive or corrupt for an affirmative (e.g. jam / denuo, or simply attollitur statum without it)

The two verbs immediately preceding in the same clause chain are unqualified praise — dignitas reparatur, sublimatur ("is repaired, is lifted up") — and the whole paragraph is panegyric on Conrad's election (de recenti vestra electione vetera Romano imperio renovat gaudia; Per vos quippe aeternae urbis decus honorque ad solis ortum usque protenditur, dilatatur). To say in the third member that the empire is scarcely raised to its ancient state retracts the two members before it. Flagged low because vix can bear a "only just / at last" force that is not fatal to the sentence.

1144A — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)

Printed: utriusque substantiae hostibus separatis, cum palma certaminis ad se revertentibus, coelestis vitae vobis januas aperiat

Conjecture: read superatis for separatis — "the enemies of both substances having been overcome"

The clause it governs is a victory clause: cum palma certaminis ad se revertentibus ("as you return to him with the palm of the contest") — a palm is awarded for conquering an enemy, not for being parted from one. The letter's own salutation states the same wish in unambiguous terms: ejus victrici dextera de spiritualibus ac corporalibus hostibus perpetuo triumphare ("may triumph perpetually by his conquering right hand over enemies both spiritual and bodily"), which is exactly utriusque substantiae hostibus (spiritual + bodily = both substances). Migne's separatis substitutes mere separation for the conquest the sentence and its frame both require; our English reproduces the defect faithfully rather than repairing it.