Significans vox (Anon. gramm. ~ P.Lond. Lit. II 184 ll. 6-7)

Showing an awareness of the distinction between vox articulata and vox inarticulata, the anonymous grammarian of the fragmentary Latin Ars contained in P.Lond. Lit. II 184 + P.Mich. VII 429 (second/third century AD) employs the concept of significans vox in his definition of dictio. The passage is analysed here in its relation to other grammatical contexts and to their possible sources: the contacts between the anonymous Ars of Karanis and the orthographical treatise by Velius Longus as well as those with the later grammar by Marius Victorinus open up several possible links between these respective texts, and may contribute to a hypothetical reconstruction of the author of this fragmentary Latin grammatical treatise contained in P.Lond. Lit. II 184 + P.Mich. VII 429