Nuovi frammenti sulle interpunzioni dall’opera di Nicanore di Alessandria (con una conferma di congettura a Aristoph. Eccl. 841 e un nuovo frammento poetico adespoto)

The 15th-century ms. Bodl. Barocci 216 preserves an unknown excerptum on punctuation attributed to the most renowned ancient grammarian in the field, Nicanor of Alexandria. This paper offers the first critical edition of this short excerptum, showing that it does derive from Nicanor’s work, and probably from the epitome of his Περὶ στιγμῆς τῆς καθόλου, of which only a few fragments are extant today. The excerptum thus offers new elements concerning Nicanor’s punctuation system, as well as the grammarian’s exegesis of various poetic texts – prominent amongst these are a passage from Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae where it restores a correct reading (conjectured in the 18th centu- ry), and a new poetic fragment possibly belonging to the comic genre.