Una nuova interpretazione del fr. F28 Garcea del De analogia cesariano

The present paper deals with a Julius Caesar’s passage quoted by the late Roman grammarian Charisius (4th century CE) in his Ars fr. F28 Garcea (Barwick 1997: 141, 25-142, 7 = 1, 110, 23-111, 6 Keil). The fragment is excerpted from Caesar’s treatise De analogia, and concerns the morphology of Nom. Sing. idem vs Nom. Plur. isdem (these are the forms reported in Charisius’ manuscripts). Unfortu- nately, the text transmitted by the Neapolitan manuscript Biblioteca Nazionale ‘Vittorio Emanuele III’ IV A 8 (8th century) is badly cor- rupted. Thanks to a close intertextual inspection of several gramma- tical sources, a new interpretation of this difficult passage is offered, together with a new reading of the manuscript. Caesar seemingly recommended the forms isdem as Nom. Sing. and iidem as Nom. Plur. Caesar’s viewpoint on the pronominal pair idem/isdem is also supported by a paragraph in Cicero’s Orator; here Cicero harshly criticizes Caesar’s position in the De analogia on Nom. Sing. isdem, together with other linguistic proposals.