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In Cath Catharda: The Civil War of the Romans

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Whitley Stokes

translated by Whitley StokesElectronic edition compiled by Janet Crawford, Benjamin Hazard, Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork and
The HEA via the LDT Project

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298, 376–390, 416–417 (olim H.2.7), for details see T.K. Abbott (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin 1900).
  2. Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1326, 596b–601 (olim H.3.18), for details see T.K. Abbott (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin 1900).
  3. Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337, 596b–601 (olim H.3.18), for details see T.K. Abbott (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin 1900).
  4. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 130 (olim 24.P.28), for details see Mary E. Byrne (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), fasc. 3, 383).
  5. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 740, 1–27 (olim C.VI.3), (ed.), for details see Gerard Murphy and Winifred Wulff (eds.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin) fasc. 18, 2245.
  6. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1070, 221–435 (olim 24.P.17), for details see Elizabeth FitzPatrick (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1940) fasc. 24, 2980.
  7. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1192, fragments (olim C.IV.3), for details see Kathleen Mulchrone (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1943) fasc. 26, 3233.
  8. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1223, 2–22 (olim D.IV.2), for details see Kathleen Mulchrone (ed.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1943) fasc. 26, 3301).
  9. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1237, section I (olim D.I.1), for details see Kathleen Mulchrone and Elizabeth FitzPatrick (eds.), Catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1943) fasc. 27, 3427.
  10. Dublin, U.C.D. Franciscan MS A.17, for details see Myles Dillon, Canice Mooney and Pádraig de Brún (eds.), Catalogue of the Irish Manuscripts in the Franciscan Library Killiney (Dublin 1969), 35–36.
  11. Edinburgh, Advocates' Library, MS XLVI (olim Highland Society John M'Kenzie No. 10), for details see Donald Mackinnon (ed.), A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland (Edinburgh 1912), 201–202.
    Latin source:
  1. Pharsalia, by M. Annaeus Lucanus. Edited by Sir Edward Ridley, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1905. Available online at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Luc.+1
    Editions and Translations
  1. Standish Hayes O'Grady, The War of Pompey and Caesar: a fragment. Text and translation. In: Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh I-II, Appendix, Irish Texts Society 26, 27 (1929).
    Further reading
  1. E. G. Cox, Classical traditions in medieval Ireland, Classical Quarterly 3 (1924) 267–84.
  2. Alfred Housman (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani, Belli Civilis Libri Decem (Oxford 1926).
  3. Robert T. Meyer, The scholiast and the Irish Lucan, Irisleabhar Ceilteach 3 (1953) 78.
  4. Charles W. Dunn, An Edinburgh-Dublin manuscript, Teangadóir 2/6 (1955) 104–105.
  5. Robert T. Meyer, The Middle-Irish version of the Pharsalia of Lucan. In: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 44 (1959) 355–363.
  6. D. R. Shackleton Bailey (ed.), M. Annaei Lucani, De bello civili, libri X (Stuttgart 1988).
  7. Susan H. Braund (trans.), Lucan. Civil War, with introduction and notes (Oxford 1992).
  8. Jane Wilson Joyce (ed. and trans.), Pharsalia (Cornell 1993).
  9. Chris Martindale, Sarah Brown, Nicholas Rowe (ed. and trans.), The Civil War: Pharsalia or Bellum Civile (London 1998).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. In Cath Catharda: The Civil War of the Romans. Whitley Stokes (ed), First edition [ix + 581 pp. i-xi Editor's Preface, 1–449 Text, 450–568 Glossarial Index, 569–581 Index of Persons.] S. HirzelLeipzig (1909) . Irische Texte. , No. 4/2

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The present text includes Stokes' and Windisch's preface (pp v-ix) and the English translation, on odd pages 3–449. Editorial notes and variants cited are not reproduced. The Irish text is available as a separate file, G305001.

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Created: Translation by Whitley Stokes (for details of source text see CELT file header G305001) (1909)

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Language: [EN] Translation is in English.
Language: [DE] A section of the preface is in German.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Middle Irish.

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