An abbreviation used in Liddell & Scott.

Michael Zwingli

Civis Illustris

  • Civis Illustris

One of the things that I have found troubling in using the nineteenth-century British Classical Dictionaries, such as are represented by both of the "two L&S's" (Lewis & Short for Latin and Liddell & Scott for Greek) are the ubiquitous use of abbreviations to be found therein. In this instance, I am wondering what is being abbreviated where Liddell & Scott use "codd.". The text from L&S reads as follows:

...the forms ᾤμοι and ὤμοι are freq. found in codd., as of S.Tr.l.c.,Aj. 980, OC202 (lyr.), etc.; ὤμοι is acknowledged by A.D.Adv.126.27. (οἴμοι may become οἴμ᾽ by elision in Trag. and Com. before “ὡς, οἴμ᾽ ὡς ἔοικας ὀρθὰ μαρτυρεῖν” S.Aj.354, cf. Ant.320,1270, Ar.ll.cc., Cratin. 183 : freq. written οἴμμοι in codd. of LXX.

Can anybody give me the reference of this?
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Would it be, maybe, codd. for "codices", and cod. for "codice"/"codex"?
Yes (the singular is codex).
I am kind of wondering why the double "d".
It's an odd but common practice: to signify that an abbreviation is plural, you double the last letter of it. Perhaps the most frequently used example of this is "pp." for "pages".
 
 

Terry S.

Aedilis

  • Aedilis

  • Patronus

Location:
Hibernia
pp
Ss
 
 

cinefactus

Censor

  • Censor

  • Patronus

Location:
litore aureo
mss
 
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