An edition of the Ecbasis captivi, a Latin animal fable. With a transcript of the Latin text, commentary and notes, and tables of correspondence to other Latin texts.

One hundred years have passed since J. Grimm discovered the Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam, the oldest animal epic of the Middle Ages (1834), and made it known in Latin poems of the 10th and 11th centuries. Edited by J. Grimm and A. Schmeller, 1838, [it has been] sixty years since Ernst Voigt published a second edition, Strasbourg 1875, after having already discussed 'the origin of the Ecbasis captivi' in the program of the Friedrichsgymnasium in Berlin in 1874. This edition by Voigt is a model of diligence and care, yet he has made serious errors in more than one respect, and the numerous thorough reviews that have taken up his work have often been able to bring about corrections and improvements. ... In the Ecbasis edition currently in preparation in the Poetae 5, these reviews must be extensively incorporated, but it is desirable that a smaller, separate edition of the poem also appear, which will allow for its wider dissemination. Therefore, I am pleased to be able to offer such an edition within the framework of the MG. in usum scholarum, which includes these results in the most concise form possible... - [Author]

Language: German, Latin