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Lachmann starts from the assumption that Agennius Urbicus based the majority
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The correct form of the author's name is uncertain. In the oldest surviving manuscript of both works, the 6th- or 7th-century Codex
Arcerianus, the name appears as AGGENVS or AGENVS VRBICVS. The form used most often in scholarship, Agennius Urbicus, derives from the 9th or 10th century Bamberg
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to be "the wretched work of some
Christian schoolmaster" and charged that "his unfortunate name has handed down confusion." However, it is uncertain how far the issues with the works ascribed to Agennius are due to subsequent transmission errors and interpolations.
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